Life is a theater... the world's a stage...so invite your audiences carefully. Not everyone is holy enough and healthy enough to have a seat in your front row. …
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Samuel Goldman | Podcast
Nationalism is back in the news. 2016 was a hinge moment. Brexit in the United Kingdom, combined with the Trump and Sanders insurgencies in the United States, focused attention on populism …
Tip Hotel Housekeepers
Do you tip hotel housekeepers? Most people would never neglect to provide a tip for a bellman or restaurant wait staff. Yet many people apparently don't provide for hotel housekeepers. Surely we …
Edmund Morris | Edison
Edmund Morris was best known as the author of an acclaimed triptych on Theodore Roosevelt. He’s one of the best of the notable group of popular historians who rose to fame in the 1970s and 1980s, …
Benjamin Franklin Admonition, 17 September 1787
Sept. 17, 1787, is the date on which the United States Constitution was read and engrossed in final form at the constitutional convention. Benjamin Franklin, then 81 years old, was too frail to make a …
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Three Blessings Exercise
Martin Seligman is recognized as the prime mover of the "positive psychology" movement. His latest book, Flourish, strives to evolve from "authentic happiness" to "well-being" theory. Among the …