The farm work they hated was the only work they knew. Often, even the basic skills of plumbing or electricity or mechanical work were mysteries to them – as were the job discipline and the...

Cultures reflect the interactions of mixed populations.

If you want to be relevant only in your household, then you only need to know the things that are important in your house, and if you want to be relevant in your neighborhood, you...

Edith (the future Mrs. Teddy Roosevelt) developed a lifelong devotion to drama and poetry. “I have gone back to Shakespeare, as I always do,” she would write seven decades later.

What we have before us then, is three distinct purposes for a university: the commercial purpose (starting a career), Stephen Pinker’s cognitive purpose (acquiring information and learning how to think) and (William) Deresiewicz’s moral purpose...

Believe it or not, philosophy has consequences.