The personality test that conned the world
What’s Your Type? The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing reviewed
The short step from good manners to lofty imperialism
In a world increasingly shaped by encounters with other cultures, the English started to form theories in which their own evolved behaviour resembled the pinnacle of possible civilisation.
1968 and the summer of our discontent
’68 will do as shorthand. Most of ’68, as it were, didn’t happen in 1968. It was, at most, the…
