Thinking With Somebody Else's Head

Sartre proposed that hell was the other people, and maybe we took that too much to heart. So we build walls to keep out the Mexicans, we sto...

How many times have we seen it? You're best friends with someone at work when suddenly they get promoted. After this move upstairs, they...

Their idea is that they're indispensable. Most of us think the same thing. There's a general belief that without those in power, we...

Oil and water. Cats and sweaters. Neckties and table fans. Some things just aren't made to go together. Like being given plastic cutlery...

It was conducted in the shadows, far from any scrutiny. It began in the '50s and was apparently stopped in the '70s. But CIA veteran...

They've been put forward as the causes of all manner of mayhem in modern folklore and even Radio and TV shows and movies. The Shadow Peo...

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...