A popular perception that political news is boring is no minor issue; for when news fails to harness the curiosity and attention of a mass audience through its presentational techniques, a society bec...
Politics is so difficult, it's generally only people who aren't quite up to the task who feel convinced they are.
The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren't there. The answers are there in the morning.
We will cease to be so angry once we cease to be so hopeful
There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it.
Differ though we might with Christianity's view of what precisely our souls need, it is hard to discredit the provocative underlying thesis, which seems no less relevant in the secular realm than in t...
Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition.
[T]he unsympathetic assessments we make of others are usually the result of nothing more sinister than our habit of looking at them in the wrong way, through lenses clouded by distraction, exhaustion...
My dad was a slightly stricter version of Richard Dawkins. The worldview was that there are idiots out there who believe in Santa Claus and fairies and magic and elves, and we're not joining that nons...
He feared that by leaving her he would ruin her life - so he stayed, and did just that.
There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.
Though debts are condemned in the financial world, the world of friendship and love may perversely depend on well-managed debts.
Philosophy, art, politics, religion and bohemia have never sought to do away entirely with the status hierarchy; they have attemptee, rather, to institute new kinds of hierarchies based on sets of val...
Partially undermining the manufacturer's ability to assert that its work constituted a meaningful contribution to mankind was the frivolous way in which it went about marketing its products. Grief was...
Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.
The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word "luxury.
The second hugely seductive move is to signal that we view the other person with a mixture of tenderness and realism. It’s often imagined that it’ll be seductive to convey an air of adoration, to hint...
The essence of the charge made against the modern high-status ideal is that it is guilty of effecting a gigantic distortion of priorities, of elevating to the highest level of achievement a process of...
He was marked out by his relentless ability to find fault with others' mediocrity--suggesting that a certain type of intelligence may be at heart nothing more or less than a superior capacity for diss...
The feeling one has no time to get anything done provides the pressure that guarantees one does get some things done.