“Always deal with people of principle. Favor them and win their favor. Their very rectitude ensures they will treat you...

Cheever, Updike, Bellow, Ellison — is anyone under 40 still reading the titans of mid-20th century literature?

Consider the snail. They have one foot, one lung, one heart, 15,000 teeth, and first appeared 200 million years before...

To understand what’s lost when a waiter tells you to scan a QR code, peruse the history of the menu

philosophybits: “Just as one bird does not make a flock, nor one day a season, so one action or a...

“Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living...

philosophybits: “The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes.” — Oscar Wilde, The Soul...

“The sum of things is ever being renewed, and mortals live dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish,...