If we want developed societies with women doctors, political leaders, teachers, bus drivers, and computer programmers, we will need qualified people to give loving care to their children. And there is...
In the at least three-thousand-year-old struggle between Pentheus and Dionysus— between popes and dancing peasants, between Puritans and carnival-goers, between missionaries and the practitioners of i...
My religious friends - and my friends were almost all Catholics or Protestants or occasionally something more exotic like Jewish or Greek Orthodox - were convinced that God had a plan for us, and sinc...
Positive thinking did not abolish the need for constant vigilance; it only turned that vigilance inward. Instead of worrying that one’s roof might collapse or one’s job be terminated, positive thinkin...
Quienes están haciendo las reestructuraciones despiden a una persona de cada tres y luego ponen un póster inspiracional en el pasillo para tapar la herida psicológica.
Some economists argue that the apparent paradox rests on an illusion: there is no real 'labor shortage,' only a shortage of people willing to work at the wages currently being offered. You might as we...
Sometimes Carlie hands me the squirt bottle of Bam (an acronym for something that begins, ominously, with butyric - the rest of it has been worn off the label) and lets me do the bathrooms. No service...
That's what meaning is—a special additive like salt or garlic that could make even the most fetid piece of meat seem palpable, even delicious.
The doctor’s detachment is not a defense against excessive empathy, but a downright negative emotional stance,
There seems to be a vicious cycle at work here, making ours not just an economy but a culture of extreme inequality. Corporate decision makers, and even some two-bit entrepreneurs like my boss at The...
To this day, and no doubt for good reasons, suffering remains the almost exclusive preoccupation of professional psychology. Journals in the field have published forty-five thousand articles in the la...
We spend so much time scrambling from one thing to the next, getting through it, getting to the end, and starting over again, that I would not forget to fully breathe in the miniscule moments of beaut...
Why shouldn’t our great chain of being include the other creatures with which we have shared the planet, the creatures we have martyred in service to us or driven out of their homes to make way for ou...
It was a real surprise to me to come across the evidence that Christianity might once have been a danced religion. Certainly, some of the early church leaders thought this was great and spoke of what...
Maybe it's low-wage work in general that has the effect of making feel like a pariah. When I watch TV over my dinner at night, I see a world in which almost everyone makes $15 an hour or more, and I'm...
But mining is also an intellectual exercise, requiring the combined skills of a plumber, a carpenter, and an electrician as well as an explosives expert. You had to be able to judge the load strength...
Combine mind plus body with freshly updated data, some of it perhaps collected on your self-monitoring devices, and act quickly to generate fresh instructions to forestall any looming problems. This,...
Desde la década de 1980, y cada vez a más velocidad en las dos siguientes, las iglesias han ido sacrificando su faceta doctrinal y embarcándose en el crecimiento por el crecimiento, para el que el pen...
En esta cultura del cáncer de mama que se ha generalizado todo sirve (no a propósito, seguramente) para quitarle hierro a la enfermedad y para normalizarla: quizá el diagnóstico sea desastroso, pero p...
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...
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