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Robert Lynch

Robert Lynch is a biological anthropologist and stand-up comedian whose writing has appeared in Quillette, Compact, The Hill, Skeptic, and the American Conservative, with research covered by NPR’s Hidden Brain and the Wall Street Journal. He holds a PhD from Rutgers. He writes about virtue, recovery, and modern life at The Laughing Ape.