En la Unión Soviética, igual que en los países del Este y en Corea del Norte, los censores exigían que el arte, la literatura y el cine estuvieran llenos de alegría, que los héroes fueran felices, que...
As a teenager, I aspired to be a scientist, but too many things happened to distract me from that goal, so I became instead a science appreciator.
Al final, la felicidad se mide a partir de la satisfacción que una persona declara sentir sobre su propia vida, y quizá sea más sencillo estar satisfecho con ella si uno tiene dinero, se ciñe a las no...
I displayed, or usually displayed, all those traits deemed essential to job readiness: punctuality, cleanliness, cheerfulness, obedience. These are the qualities that welfare-to-work job-training prog...
Esa chifladura general de los estadounidenses con el pensamiento positivo no sirvió para hacerles más felices.
With his long hair, his hints of violence, and his promise of ecstasy, Dionysus was the first rock star.
What I have to face is that 'Barb,' the name on my ID tag, is not exactly the same person as Barbara. 'Barb' is what I was called as a child, and still am by my siblings, and I sense that at some leve...
There are no secret economies that nourish the poor; on the contrary, there are a host of special costs. If you can’t put up the two months’ rent you need to secure an apartment, you end up paying thr...
The early Christian patriarchs may not have realized that, in attempting to suppress ecstatic practices, they were throwing out much of Jesus too.
Mientras que la investigación sobre el vínculo entre actitud y supervivencia al cáncer es muy endeble, existen toneladas de artículos que demuestran que las personas optimistas o felices suelen tener...
In today's world, other people have become an obstacle to our individual pursuits.
I couldn't help noticing that the existential space in which a friend had earnestly advised me to 'confront [my] mortality' bore a striking resemblance to the mall.
But Jesus makes his appearance here only as a corpse; the living man, the wine-guzzling vagrant and precocious socialist, is never once mentioned, nor anything he ever had to say. Christ crucified rul...
Ah, hell. Even now, insulated by so many intervening years, I could choke on the pity of it. They started out so young and brave, my parents, and ended up such sordid messes. Only one thing saved my f...
According to a recent poll [...] 94% of Americans agree that people who work fulltime should be able to earn enough to keep their families out of poverty.
Por culpa de los seguros privados, muchos psicólogos clínicos ya no pueden tratar a sus pacientes como creen que deberían. Pero, dado que desean seguir trabajando para ayudar a la gente, están dejando...
La persona que sabe trabajar en equipo es, por definición, alguien positivo. Alguien que siempre luce una sonrisa, que no se queja, que no les da demasiadas vueltas a las cosas, y que se somete con bu...
You still don't like the idea of gay marriage? Then, as my friend the economist Julianne Malveaux says: Don't marry a gay person. Case closed, problem solved.
When someone works for less pay than she can live on — when, for example, she goes hungry so that you can eat more cheaply and conveniently — then she has made a great sacrifice for you, she has made...
We do not look into mirrors, for example, to see our true selves, but to see what others are seeing, and what passes for inner reflection is often an agonizing assessment of how others are judging us.