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  • America, Aristotle, and the Politics of a Middle Class: A Review

    America, Aristotle, and the Politics of a Middle Class: A Review0

    Is the American project doomed because the Enlightenment liberal philosophy on which it is based contains such contradictions that today’s social and political failures were inevitable? Or are we inflicting disintegration on ourselves through bad thinking and bad choices in more recent times, committing a kind of cultural suicide? These are among the happy choices

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  • How Low-Energy Parents Can Get Their Children to Cooperate

    How Low-Energy Parents Can Get Their Children to Cooperate0

    These days I look at most things through the lens of temperament. I know people who run their own businesses, get up at four or five AM to go running or cycling, socialise broadly, and oversee their young children’s busy lives while even looking after other people’s children at the same time. These people are

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  • 4 Ways to Talk to Boring People

    4 Ways to Talk to Boring People0

    If, like myself, you are an incurable snot, you probably often find yourself trapped in hopelessly boring conversations with hopelessly boring people. These, “boring people” could be friends, relatives, coworkers – anyone whom social standards (and basic human decency) oblige you to regularly engage in small-talk. However, even as you shrivel up inside as one

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  • This T.S. Eliot Poem Describes Modern Males Perfectly

    This T.S. Eliot Poem Describes Modern Males Perfectly1

    In his famous poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” T.S. Eliot proved prophetic, predicting the new kind of man and the new kind of courtship that would dominate the modern world. If people want to understand the insecurities, the indecision, and the wince-inducing incompetence of single men today, they will find it all

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  • High Schoolers Don’t Read Books Anymore… and Why That Sets Them Up for Failure

    High Schoolers Don’t Read Books Anymore… and Why That Sets Them Up for Failure0

    By now, it’s a well-known fact that American adults don’t read. Fourteen percent can’t read at all. Thirteen percent can’t read proficiently. And according to Pew, one in four adults didn’t even bother to pick up a book in the last year. But these are adults, right? They’re busy with work and parenting and social

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  • Motherhood: Why Society is Making it the Most Stress-Ridden Career

    Motherhood: Why Society is Making it the Most Stress-Ridden Career0

    An op-ed published last week in the New York Times has confirmed that motherhood is the most controversial and stress-ridden career of the 21st century. Author Kim Brooks knows this better than most. For her, it all started with a knock on the door by a police officer with a warrant for her arrest. The

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