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Students must be willing to learn.

Thinkers including Hal Foster, Anthony Grafton, Martha Jones, and Anahid Nersessian pick their favorites.

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. The Crow people were a proud and thriving Native American Nation until the U.S. defeated them in battle while killing off the buffalo,...

Between a long list of writing commitments and keeping up with an active toddler, it’s been a very, very busy year. But it’s also been a productive one:

This question was prompted by an article in the New York Times that identified the emotion of the year 2021 as “languishing.” The Times noted that we weren’t necessarily depressed or hopeless, but “feeling a sense of blah, or emptiness.”The reasons...

I am feeling hopeless about our politics and our planet. In my weekly writing group last Monday, I wrote “I am wrestling with the word hope. About its meaning. About whether I have it or not. I don’t think I do. But not being able to articulate what...

Socrates teaches us that philosophical contemplation prepares us for the good life. The philosopher is anyone who dares to escape the cave.

Socrates was notoriously annoying. He was likened to a gadfly buzzing around while one is trying to sleep. The Oracle of Delphi declared him the wises

City food entrepreneur Don Lear, known as 'The Bhaji Man', has died aged 87.