Do we all have our price? Do we fold, do we compromise, do we give in -- do we all have a price? Or in the words of the theme of our commentary, do we all drink the Kool-Aid?
Toan Lam | Posted 02.04.2012
For one full minute I want you to sit down (preferably in silence) and think about what you have accomplished in your career thus far.
Arnal Dayaratna | Posted 02.04.2012
Anyone passionate about soccer will be saddened by the untimely passing away of Socrates, the Brazilian midfielder who captained Tele Santana's legendary World Cup team of 1982.
Alan Black | Posted 02.04.2012
Socrates, the great Brazilian soccer maverick, has died at age 57. Those who saw him play were moved by his style. He glided over the grass, his intelligence working the angles, carving space, inspirational and beautiful.
AP | TALES AZZONI | Posted 02.03.2012
SAO PAULO — On and off the field, former Brazil star Socrates stood out above the rest. His elegant style and his deep involvement with politic...
Tom Morris | Posted 01.09.2012
I started off with a huge plate of pulled pork and beef brisket, accompanied by fried okra, potato salad, sweet collard greens, Brunswick Stew, and thick toast, all washed down with two or three bottles of Bud Light on tap. You have to cut your calories somewhere.
Greg Lukianoff | Posted 11.07.2011
Harvard has missed something that I fear much of our society has lost sight of: Even if by some weird and lucky coincidence we happened to be right about every belief we cherish, we nevertheless tend not to understand why we hold those values until they are challenged.
The Relentless Conservative | Posted 11.06.2011
As I was perusing my favorite online quotations page recently, I was shocked to discover our new president, a real 'newbie' in terms of governing much less generating legacy quotes that should be remembered through the ages, has 21 quotes listed for himself.
William Astore | Posted 11.04.2011
As a society, we talk about the importance of leaders in all walks of life, but when it comes to our classrooms, many of us seem to want to empower the followers while executing the sages when the former do poorly on standardized tests.
Troy Jackson | Posted 10.10.2011
This Labor Day weekend, we are challenging every congregation and faith community in Ohio and around the nation to devote a portion of your worship service to exploring a biblically informed perspective on labor.
Tom Morris | Posted 09.19.2011
As Plato and Aristotle knew, many of the world's problems are caused or fueled by doxa, half-baked opinions and false beliefs that, for one reason or another, have remained unexamined.
Vivian Norris | Posted 08.30.2011
Dominique Strauss-Kahn's Achilles' heel is sex, he said so himself. And it is not by chance that the financial Achilles' heel in Europe is also the cultural birthplace of much of what the West stands for: Greece.
Posted 06.14.2011
It happens in every generation: someone comes up with ideas that look crazy but turn out to be genius. When do they get the recognition? After they're...
Diane Tucker | Posted 05.25.2011
"It was innocent," insisted Mark Sanford, while recollecting his first encounter with Maria Belen Chapur on an Uruguayan dance floor. Oh, really?
Tom Morris | Posted 11.17.2011
Assaf Peretz has provided a great place online for people to have deep conversations about things that matter: the innovative social website www.THINQon.com.
Tom Morris | Posted 11.17.2011
Last week, I wrote a Foreword for a friend's new book entitled The Freak Factor. It's a great look at the incredible, outrageous, freakishly wonderful...
Bruce Fein | Posted 05.25.2011
At key points in his ego-driven career, Henry Kissinger was confronted with a choice between power and moral principle. He chose power, and became a moral dwarf.
Katharine Quarmby | Posted 05.25.2011
Causing red faces and embarrassment are hardly criminal offenses. Clean and open societies need their gadflies, as Socrates found to his cost.
Iris Erlingsdottir | Posted 05.25.2011
"My most heartfelt wish is to be allowed to read Nordic studies at the university, because it is my unwavering belief that doing so will cultivate my ...
Thomas Steinbeck | Posted 05.25.2011
The Steinbeck Award points to examples of American patriots who have made an indelible impact on our culture. Mr. Moore aptly fulfills every required parameter designed to guide the choice of award recipients.
Megan Doherty | Posted 05.25.2011
I faced my first Core Curriculum class at Columbia last week armed with the names of my 20 students and a heavily annotated copy of Plato's Republic.
Tom Morris | Posted 11.17.2011
Hugh Hefner long ago shocked people nationally and sought to make them think in new ways by personally philosophizing about sex, love, and pornography...
David Vognar | Posted 05.25.2011
We do not need to totally abandon myth in order to live in the way of truth. We just need to get out of the way of acting out our myths.
Terry Kelhawk | Posted 05.25.2011
In the West, we believe that when someone moves a disagreement from the issue to a personal attack, it is because their case is weak. But can we make that assumption with other cultures?
Michael Sigman | Posted 05.25.2011
My own meditation practice -- which facilitates clarity and focus -- has benefited incalculably from Buddhist and other spiritual websites, blogs, lectures, readings, videos and guided meditations.
Rodney L. Taylor, Ph.D. | Posted 04.26.2012