Now students all seem to be converging on the same self, the successful upper-middle-class professional, impersonating the adult they've already decided they want to become.
No real excellence, personal or social, artistic, philosophical, scientific, or moral, can arise without solitude.
We can start all the organic farms we want, but we can't stop congress from declaring pizza sauce a vegetable.
[Jane] Austen was not a novelist for nothing: she knew that our stories are what make us human, and that listening to someone else's stories -- entering into their feelings, validating their experienc...