Thinking With Somebody Else's Head

It’s still hitting us hard. Markets are down, foreclosures are up. Shanty towns are springing up in southern California. We’re officially in...

It's not the first time we've seen big money bailouts in our economic history, of course. Financial crises have been with us since t...

We've been in the dark about ourselves for a long time. But writers and thinkers from Homer to Schopenhauer have always known there was ...

We're conditioned to it now. We're stressed because of work. We're shy because our family's shy. We're sick because ther...

It flows inexorably underneath the American personality. Look on the bright side. On the sunny side of the street. Let a smile be your umbre...

As we've explored before, it was Aristotle who led the compartmentalizaton of science into all its disciplines. He oriented us away from...

It's a dream almost as old as mankind. A yearning for a return to a golden time. A flowering of all that is magnificent in the human sou...

The mythology says there's a free hand of benevolence calming or cajoling the marketplace. But it seems that's mostly dogma. Economi...

We've been seduced by them, and horrified by them. Encouraged to tune out with them, and spurn them violently as instruments of the devi...

The most famous expressions of it are found in the world's great cities. But it's also scratched in caves and carved on rock walls. ...

Most place its origins on chemical imbalances, or poor nutrition, or heredity ... or even on bad karma from past lives. But with the new dis...

The faces of its perpetrators are hidden behind hoods and stockings. Its acts are captured on hand-held home video cameras in dank prisons o...

Trilogical science has been around for half a century. In that time, it's identified essential aspects of the human psyche. It's all...

They can be downright weird or totally logical. Recurring or one-off experiences. Most of them we dismiss the moment we wake from them. But ...

Almost a century ago we had a war to end all wars. But we could say we've had nothing but since! Millions dead. Homes torn apart. Artist...

Spending on medical technology is growing. Drug prescriptions are flying out of doctor's offices. Drug companies are throwing new drugs ...

He's widely considered one of the greatest scientific geniuses of all time. A humbe civil servant, he rose from obscurity to change the ...

We spend our most formative years in it. The best years of our lives, they call it. And in these years, we ostensibly learn invaluable lesso...

Some say it comes from our social inequality. Others that greed and the lust for power are behind it. Still others say it's just our nat...

It is nurtured in the fevers of fanaticism. Fomented in books and newsletters and websites. We can defend it, or march out against it. We ca...