When did empathy become optional? It seems like people’s first reaction to almost anything these days is, “How does this affect me?”What that says about us as a society and why we’ve become so self-focused. From politics to everyday life, we’ve forgotten how to care about others. Maybe it’s time we remember. If your first…
Half of America clings to the First Amendment, the other half clings to the Second. What happens when free speech and firepower can’t figure out how to live together? Sometimes I think this country is like a bad reality show — one half of us clutching the First Amendment like it’s the last roll of…
In a world drowning in information but starving for wisdom, critical thinking is becoming a lost art. Here’s why we desperately need to revive it — and what’s at stake if we don’t. Everywhere you turn today, information is flashing at us like neon signs — headlines, opinions, statistics, videos, articles. It’s all right there,…
