Links:

    -AUTHOR SITE: LukeBurgis.com
    -TWITTER: @lukeburgis
    -NEWSLETTER: Luke Burgis newsletter
    -BOOK SITE: Wanting (MacMillan)
    -GOOGLE BOOK: Wanting
    -ESSAY: Mimetic Desire 101: A short introduction to why we want the things we want. (Luke Burgis, Jan 17, Anti-Mimetic)
    -ESSAY: Why Every Creator Deserves an Agent: A new kind of agent could help creators navigate and negotiate a rapidly evolving landscape (Luke Burgis, Apr 13, 2021, Marker)
    -ESSAY: Why We Want What Other People Have: Making choices based on the desires of others is a part of human nature. But there are ways to counteract the force. (Luke Burgis, 5/20/21, Forge)
    -ESSAY: Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life (Luke Burgis, 21 July, 2021, Next Big Idea Club)
    -ESSAY: Knowing Why We Want What We Want (Luke Burgis, Constant Renewal)
    -ESSAY: Culture War as Imitation Game: The timeliness of René Girard’s case against idolizing politics (Luke Burgis, Summer 2023, New Atlantis)
    -ESSAY: Cynthia L. Haven talks about René Girard; Hamline frankly defies the AAUP (Len Gutkin, 10/09/23, The Chronicle Review)
    -INTRODUCTION: to Be not Conformed: René Girard at the Nexus of Athens, Jerusalem, and Silicon Valley Edited by Luke Burgis (Luke Burgis)
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    -VIDEO INTERVIEW: Free will: The real casualty of the algorithm: Luke Burgis argues that smartphones have made acedia, the ancient restlessness that pulls us away from the present, socially contagious. (Big Think Interview)
    -VIDEO: Mimetic desire, social contagion, and the fight for your true self: Luke Burgis explains how anxiety and opinion spread through groups by contagion, and what it takes to build a solid self that can stand apart from the crowd. (Big Think, 10/15/26)
    -PODCAST: The Self, the Crowd, and Social Contagion (with Luke Burgis) (Russ Roberts, Jun 8 2026, EconTalk)
    -PODCAST: Trialogue: What Is Political Atheism?,/a>: Joshua Mitchell, Shadi Hamid, and Jerry Bowyer discuss one of René Girard's most paradoxical terms (Moderated by Justin Lee, JUN 13, 2024, Novitate)
    -PODCAST: What is Mimetic Theory? Philosophies of René Girard with Luke Burgis (Garry Tan, 6/01/21)
    -PODCAST: Wanting with Luke Burgis (The Innovation Show with Aidan McCullen, Jun 1, 2021)
    -PODCAST: Luke Burgis (Team Human, 4/28/2021)
    -PODCAST: The Power of Mimetic Desire | Luke Burgis (Bankless, 7/05/2021)
    -PODCAST: ML179 Luke Burgis on The Power of Mimetic Desire, Choosing Role Models and How To Want What You Need (MetaLearn, 8/11/21)
    -PODCAST: Luke Burgis on Mimetic Desire and Getting What You Want in Life (Daily Stoic, 6/05/21)
    -AUDIO INTERVIEW: Getting to Yes, And… | Luke Burgis (WGN-Second City Works, 8/03/21)
    -PODCAST: Wanting: how to declutter our desires to pursue what we truly want: Luke Burgis (Finding Brave)
    -PODCAST: “Wanting” by Luke Burgis (The Notepod 19, JUNE 18, 2021)
    -PODCAST: Why Do You Want What You Want? (with Luke Burgis) (Todd Henry, The Accidental Creative)
    -PODCAST: Luke Burgis — What Drives Human Desire? (EP.50) (Infinite Loops, JUNE 3, 2021)
    -VIDEO PODCAST: Luke Burgis - Why We Want What We Want (Ryan Hawk, Jun 3, 2021, The Learning Leader Show)
    -PODCAST: What We Really Want with Luke Burgis (Mind Meld 256, 04 Jun 2021)
    -VIDEO PODCAST: WANTING - Luke Burgis: The authentic self is individual and social (Leadership Freak, May 31, 2021)
    -PODCAST: Investigating the Thought-Provoking Concept of Mimetic Desire with Luke Burgis (Finding Genius Podcast, 7/05/21)
    -PODCAST: Episode 194: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Markets, Politics, & Culture | Luke Burgis (Demetri Kofinas, Hidden Forces)
    -PODCAST: Luke Burgis: Mimetic Desire, Bitcoin, Breakups, Criticisms of René Girard, & Re-reading The Gospels (Auxoro, 8/13/21)
    -PODCAST: Podcast #714: Why Do We Want What We Want? (Art of Manliness, 6/07/21)
    -INTERVIEW: Q&A: Be Not Conformed—Girard and the Problem of Desire in a Postsecular Age (Alexandra Davis and Luke Burgis, February 29, 2024, Public Discourse)
    -INTERVIEW: What Shapes Our Desires?: Luke Burgis Discusses the Power of Fiction, Health of the Humanities, Mimetic Desire, the Woke/Anti-Woke Binary, and the Three City Problem (JOEL J MILLER, JUL 17, 2024, Miller's Book Review)
    -VIDEO ARCHIVES: Luke Burgis (YouTube)
    -REVIEW: of Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life by Luke Burgis (Thomas J Bevan, University Bookman)
    -REVIEW: of Wanting (Publishers Weekly)
    -REVIEW: of Wanting (Matthew Verre)
    -REVIEW: of Wanting (Christina Patterson, Times uk)
    -REVIEW: of Wanting (curtis Gruenler, The Bulletin of the Colloquium on Violence & Religion)
    -REVIEW: of Wanting (Cups of Tea)
    -REVIEW: of Wanting (25 Hour Ideas)
    -REVIEW: of Wanting (Theodore Kinni, strategy + business)
    -REVIEW: of Wanting (Geoff Shullenberger, Yahoo!)
    -REVIEW: of Wanting (Justin Lee, Arc Digital)
    -REVIEW: of Wanting (Financial Times)
    -REVIEW: of Wanting (Ana Kwarteng, Coveteur)
    -REVIEW: of Wanting (Donald Roth, In all Things)
    -REVIEW: Baa, Ram, You?: The One and the Ninety-Nine rests on a ‘simple’ premise: ‘Each of us is torn between belonging and differentiation; few ever learn to manage that tension.’ (Elizabeth Stice, May 18, 2026, Mere Orthodoxy)
    -REVIEW: Confronting our Current Digital Malaise: a review of The One and the Ninety-Nine: Forging Identity in the Age of Social Contagion By Luke Burgis (Gene Callahan, 10/25/26, University Bookman)
    -REVIEW: of Wanting (