Ideas
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The SAT adversity score will be an inadequate remedy for a test that has been inequitable and dubious from the start.
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Emotional labor is common to historically underpaid jobs held mostly by women. How will the rise of automation change the way it’s valued?
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Medieval monks didn’t have smartphones but they had plenty of distractions. Here are a few ways in which they strengthened their focus.
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The answer to whether complex civilizations or moralizing gods came first has significant ramifications for how we address social ills today.
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Consider an alternative political system which retains the same institutions of representative democracy but apportions power according to knowledge or competence.
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Literary theorists of the past half-century—who now dominate the humanities—encourage us to assume ill-intentions of one another. This contrasts with the ’empathetic’ humanities, which aim…
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P.L. Travers, who hung out with British mystics and studied alongside a Zen Buddhist master, would have approved of the Mary Poppins sequel.
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Here are five recent research findings worth considering when weighing the wisdom of “follow your passion” or pursuing a calling in life.