Amanda Ripley

Ripley is the New York Times bestselling author of The Smartest Kids in the World and The Unthinkable. Her new book is High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out. She writes for The Atlantic, Politico, The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal, among other publications.

Recent Articles

We Need More 'Good Conflict' in the U.S. Here's How It Works

A dozen liberal, Jewish New Yorkers traveled to rural Michigan to stay in the homes of a dozen conservative corrections officers, whom they’d never met, to try to understand each other.It sounds like the opening...

By Amanda Ripley

The New SAT Doesn't Come Close to the World's Best Tests

Think Our 3-Hour SAT is Grueling? Try the Finns’ 50-Hour Standardized Test

By Amanda Ripley
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