We’re always being told that the sign of a good and intelligent person is someone who keeps up with the …
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What Is the Sunday Evening Feeling?
Sunday evenings have a particular atmosphere, where nostalgia mixes with dread. A lot of the emotion is at heart about …
How Parents Get In The Way of Career Plans
Most modern parents say that all they want for their kids in the world of work is that they be …
Art is Advertising for What We Really Need
Advertising beautifully alerts us to the desirability lots of things we probably don’t need that much of in our lives. …
Countries for winners; countries for losers
A good way to divide advanced societies is to ask: which are the good ones if you’re doing well, and …
Resilience
The route to greater resilience is to explore how well we would cope if so much of what we think …
Why Good Societies Are Pessimistic
We may associate pessimism with bad things, but at a political level, the world’s best societies are all experts at …
Is There an Alternative to Political Correctness?
Political correctness aims for some very nice results, but its means have a habit of upsetting a lot of people. …