Students sacrifice all to grades and resume building—'I might be miserable,' a Yalie noted, 'but were I not miserable, I wouldn't be at Yale.'
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Students sacrifice all to grades and resume building—'I might be miserable,' a Yalie noted, 'but were I not miserable, I wouldn't be at Yale.'
Science says lasting relationships come down to—you guessed it—kindness and generosity.
Though there are certainly cases when death is justly considered a deliverance from suffering, it’s time to reconsider our belief that, as individuals, we are free to choose the time and place of that deliverance. As Hecht writes, “The meaning of life is bigger than the individual.”
To reduce art to a solely therapeutic function blinds us to the higher reality that art can reveal to us all.
The psychology of rituals in overcoming loss and restoring broken order.
Do we have a lost generation on our hands?
New research supports the understanding that all people are born with a sense of good and bad. What does that say about altruism, community, and the capacity to kill one another?
Hobey Baker, a turn-of-the-century athlete, is all but forgotten today—a revealing case of cultural amnesia. What Baker represented, and what he still represents, is in short supply in our time: an athlete whose success is determined by his moral integrity, not by the number of wins he stacks up or by the sums of money he earns.