Hey Reader! Did they ever make you read William Golding’s Lord of the Flies in high school? In case you got to skip it, I’ll summarize: A group of schoolboys stranded on a desert island quickly devolve from well-behaved kids into murderous barbarians. That book has been translated into more than 30 languages, made into a film and helped win its author a Nobel Prize for literature. But it also reinforces a stereotype about human behavior that isn’t true. You see, Golding’s story is based on...