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Why have we moved so far apart and become so antagonistic? These cultural phenomena are massively complex. No single explanation can do justice to all…

I had just finished presenting my research to a set of Internet executives gathered at a conference, when a hand shot up. “Will your findings…

While many of the seismic changes on the horizon are to be welcomed—like working for a passion rather than for a living— several of the…

If you wish to hear how pitch-monotony sounds, strike the same note on the piano over and over again. By pitch, as everyone knows, we…

IF YOU ASK SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE why they’re successful, it’s striking how often they’ll bring up episodes of failure. “I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in…

At its inception a mass movement seems to champion the present against the past. It sees in the established institutions and privileges an encroachment of…

Ten or twenty billion years ago, something happened—the Big Bang, the event that began our universe. Why it happened is the greatest mystery we know.…

Traveling abroad sometime afterward, I fell into a conversation with two doctors from Uganda and a writer from South Africa. I told them about Sara’s…

Do you hate your opponents? The problem is not only that people confidently hold strongly opposing views with such confidence. I am a philosopher, so…

Nobody can be a citizen of the world as he is the citizen of his country. Jaspers, in his Origin and Goal of History (1953),…