But surely the commute that defines the era was Noah’s voyage aboard his eponymous ark, and to this day it remains the most epic commuting story ever told. As most people know, God felt that...

After leaving Egypt, Moses and his people endured a forty-year commute, starting with a truly epic crossing of the Red Sea (which made getting through the Lincoln Tunnel at rush hour seem like traipsing across...

As Harvard University psychologist Daniel Gilbert argues, ‘You can’t adapt to commuting, because it’s entirely unpredictable. Driving in traffic is a different kind of hell every day.’