materialism

Commentary Strenuous attempts to resist the tide of history—its repetitive waves and cycles—reflect perhaps the greatest human intellectual disease. It is a human frailty, a blind spot that has been ...

While some might argue to the contrary (my husband, for example), I don't write 24/7. I do have ...

What happens when our understanding of the world is split into the competing camps of science and religion? ...

Something we often take for granted is a courtyard. It is a place of relaxation, serenity, or gathering, ...

Commentary Despite modern technology, there is no better way to send a message to the world than from ...

Lately, I’ve been buying a lot of things: a nice watch, some cool folding knives, some tools, and ...

There are some practical steps we can take to get more out of life than what money can ...

The rise of socialism in the United States can only be explained by an abject failure of our ...

Commentary Karl Marx was first a philosopher and then an economist. While accepting Georg Hegel’s view that history ...

The Italian painter Luca Giordano working in the late 17th century was misunderstood in his time.  Initially, he ...

I have talked in previous articles on the importance of myth and story, and that how we apprehend ...

Global growth no longer keeps the pace of just a decade ago. Researcher Joergen Oerstroem Moeller points to ...