Thinking With Somebody Else's Head

The Urban Dictionary offers a comprehensive definition of what is a magnetic personality. It's a person with a sense of calm self-confi...

We've all had the experience. You go to sleep concerned about something or other. A thorny problem at work, a creative block, a difficul...

If we open a discussion about civilization, we open ourselves to the possibility of particularly dull and wooden exclamations about the renu...

Never trust a person over 30. All you need is love. Hell no, we won't go. These were the slogans of the last great manifestation against...

Eight or nine years ago, a former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Marcia Angell , wrote a book called The Truth About the...

Line up all the economists in the world, it is said, and they'll all point in different directions. And while it's true that economi...

It would be difficult to ignore the problems all around us. In fact, I was watching a disturbing video on the weekend about the serious con...

Check out a modern photography exhibition and you'll often find disturbing pictures of conflict and misery, along with the usual justifi...

There is a common misconception in many parts of the world that society is improving. "Hey, we don't draw and quarter people in the...

Way back in English Lit class at Reynolds High School in my hometown of Victoria, I remember Mrs. Kent waxing rhapsodically about Milton ...

In the 1500s, the scientific revolution was in full bloom. Scientists were fighting for independence from the theological dogmas that were ...

I'm Richard Lloyd Jones, and welcome to Thinking with Somebody Else's Head. In season one of HBO's The Newsroom , Jeff Daniel...

In the early 1900s, a well-known Serbian inventor-turned-American embarked on the project of his life - the wireless transmission of elect...

Welcome to Thinking with Somebody Else's Head. Martin Luther King foretold of a promised land. Thoreau wrote of a transcendent time whe...

I'm Richard Lloyd Jones, and this is Thinking with Somebody Else's Head. When I published our most recent program, Glorification and...

Another Christmas period, and all that that brings. The packed parking lots, the festive yuletide happy hours, cooking - and eating - the fa...

Welcome to Thinking with Somebody Else's Head. Nowadays, a conversation about spirits is looked upon in most of our western world with a...

I'm Richard Lloyd Jones, and this is Thinking with Somebody Else's Head. Any who've listened to this program for any length of...

Freedom. It's a word that hits deep in the human soul. Let Freedom Ring! Thank God Almighty, I am free at last! Give me liberty or...

In The Brothers Karamazov , Dostoyevsky writes, "You have needs, satisfy them. Don't hesitate. Expand your needs and demand more....