What’s the point of travel? It’s to help make us into better people. It’s a sort of therapy. Without anything…
Today, pretty much every economy in the world is organized along capitalist lines but at the same time, capitalism is…
The phenomenon known as the Renaissance is one of the standard stops on any tour through the history of Western…
There’s a few around that the most romantic thing you could tell someone else is, ” I don’t want to…
We are so mean to ourselves. So utterly, barbarically cruel. If we saw someone treating a stranger the way we…
What are universities really for? Well, the main thing is to teach people how to make a living. Educating the…
Design is the posh word for thinking a lot about how stuff looks A designed object is one whose makers…
We’re desperate to avoid it of course, but we won’t, for a lot of very good reasons: We don’t understand…
The story of the Buddha’s life, like all of Buddhism, is a story about confronting suffering. He was born between…