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The takeaway message of the book is that, really, we should be cautious at ridiculing or diminishing other people's beliefs because we all entertain beliefs. Once we recognize that, we can be a little bit more understanding of where they come from. If you read this book, you'll...
“Examined Life,” points towards the days of Socrates, not only in its opening lines—Socrates’ famous defense “The unexamined life is not worth living” reaffirmed millennia later by the booming voice of Cornel West?...
Dear Ms. Laura Miller—About five and a half years ago today, I read an article of yours in the New York Times Sunday Book Review. Unlike the usual stuff of newspapers, which people read on Monday and by Sunday have moved on from, your article has had...
Who needs tabloids when there’s Twitter? Posting a shocking 1,382 percent increase in visitors year-over-year since February 2008, Twitter is the latest phenomenon in the recent surge of social interaction applications that have transformed the very idea of communication. A steady stream of constantly...
Everyone knows about this one. The café is a quiet, oft-neglected place to study* or engage in spirited intellectual conversation. Indeed, by day it resembles a veritable coffeehouse--the type you would find in 18th-century Enlightenment Europe, where Diderot and Montaigne would discuss the great ideas over...