Thinking With Somebody Else's Head

Its victim list is a long one that includes some of the most famous personalities of the 20th century. But it's the less well-known stor...

They're forecasting possible energy price hikes of 30 - 50% this year. On top of a recession, it's hardly good news. We've been ...

Philosopher David Hume called it the most contentious issue in metaphysics. Actually, nearly every major figure in the history of philosophy...

We've heard the spin. The rhetoric-loaded speeches that gave us goosebumps. The hand-on-the-heart pledges that promised to lead us out o...

Unemployment rates are the highest in 16 years. We've got massive foreclosures and forecasts of trillion dollar deficits. Our kids have ...

We put up the decorations. We send out the cards with the heartfelt wishes for peace and goodwill. We sometimes sing the songs. But the desi...

Everybody has theories about what's causing our current economic breakdown. Those raised on the French philosophy of Sartre and Voltaire...

Normally we see a person with serious problems we recommend professional help. After all, we go to the gym to keep our bodies toned, we go t...

We’ve got change in the White House. And in the tennis ATP rankings. A change in Madonna’s marital status, too … for what that’s worth. Not ...

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...