If you have a safe and convenient means of protecting yourself from danger that does not hurt others in the short-run or long-run, take...

Love Doesn't Wait On Understanding Love doesn’t have to understand its object fully. Indeed, it never can. As for love, so for empathy...

“Mild success can be explainable by skills and labor. Wild success is attributable to variance.” – Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Fooled By...

“It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.” - Somerset Maugham This quotation...

We tend to think of our love for a person like anything else – as something we either have or don’t have. But I think the emotional...

I am not a Democrat. I am not a Republican. I am, however, an American – a status I spent 12 years of my life and tens of thousands of...

Love is addictive – neurochemically speaking. So it makes sense that the loss of a love relationship can feel utterly unbearable – like...

One of the quotes that I have returned to more than most is from the C17 French mathematician, Blaise Pascal, about something that in...

From a peer-reviewed paper by John P. A. Ioannidis, a Stanford University professor who is highly regarded in evidence-based medicine,...

One of the most interesting aspects of political psychology concerns the gap between the reasons for which people believe they hold their...

Quietly in the background of my life over the last year and a half or so, I've been working with volunteers to whom I am profoundly...

If the soul speaks, then alas it is not the soul that speaks. - Friedrich Schiller, German poet and philosopher For me, this was a...

In one of my professional roles, Academic Dean of an educational institute, I have the great privilege of interviewing young applicants...

The first quote in my 240-page commonplace book (see the first blog entry above) is this. If you wish to proceed into the infinite,...

I think I was the only adult American who didn’t know who Michael Jordan is when the documentary, Last Dance came out. I had heard the...

“He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute...

A couple of years ago, I wrote an article called "How America Made Me White." I just got around to rereading it in the light of recent...

History churns up many times like these – times when a deep and persistent injustice is widely perceived and met by a singular focus and...

Glaring and great injustice elicits glaring and great virtue - but also, alas, glaring and cheap virtue. How can you distinguish between...