Michele Haiken isn’t quite ready to do away with student essays. But the veteran English teacher at New York’s Rye Middle School would much rather get her students writing podcasts and movie scripts, ...

This is the second in a series of posts about my book, The Four Realms of Existence. The world we live in is filled with things that we distinguish from other things. Perhaps the most fundamental ...

Neuroscientist LeDoux (The Deep History of Ourselves) presents a rigorously scientific yet eminently readable exploration of what it means to be human. Writing that “we are hierarchically organized ...