The Wisdom40 Challenge

Diet detoxes and programs for healthier eating are everywhere: plans to re-orient habits to cultivate better physical health. Whole30—a clean-eating plan designed to revamp eating habits over 30 days—is just one of many examples. These are great, but arguably some of the greatest sicknesses of the digital age are not the result of bad food diets as much as bad information diets. 

That’s the premise of my new book, The Wisdom Pyramid: Feeding Your Soul in a Post-Truth World. We need for our spirit...