Thinking With Somebody Else's Head

A listener asked me recently, "Why is it necessary to speak of God." Then she went on, "We have to see this God or whatever i...

The term's been trotted out by sound bite trained military commanders trying to come up with a fitting image for describing the enemy. L...

It is enticing to follow its seductive lure. "It's not your fault. You couldn't help it. There was nothing you could do." ...

As a few at the top have been raking in the dough in America, the rest of us have been struggling. Offically "low-wage" familes ar...

We see the legacy of its long history in the trend of magical thinking. Ask for it, believe in it, receive it - the mantra for getting what ...

One is kindly and bearded and knowing or your behavior for the whole year. He's also present in the minds of millions of young ones by t...

The trend is alarming - the media is concentrating in fewer and fewer hands every day it seems. And the owners are the same big guys who chu...

It should be a sacred thing. And indeed, our food philosophy used to be closer to common sense in the past. My parents, already a generation...

Our thinking. Our philosophies of life. These are things we take for granted most of the time. "That's just the way it is," we...

The truth will set you free, it is written. OK, good. But knowing what the truth is, recognizing it when it pulls up alongside, ah, that...

Vaccines have been sold as essential for our survival. And we're vaccinating a significantly larger number of kids because of it. Many h...

It's a philosophy deeply entrenched in our North American view of life: make your money work for you, leverage your investments, make mo...

Wagner believed in Mozart, Beethoven and God. Not necessarily in that order, but in all three. Schumann called music the language that permi...

He revolutionized the field of medicine, and has numerous institutions named after him for his efforts. He was one of the most celebrated sc...

The literature is full of advice about what you need to do to attain it. You'll hear loads about purpose, about forming habits, about li...

The biggest 20th century one killed millions. An outbreak in the mid-20th century killed far less. '68 was the last big one, but back in...

Everyone has weighed in with opinions on the subject. The comments flow endlessly from book titles and magazine articles. Our predominating ...

Hundreds of years before the meteoric rise of Cisco Systems or Qualcomm stock prices, Semper Augustus tulip bulbs were selling for the price...

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 ...