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How the Modern World Made Cowards of Us All

How the Modern World Made Cowards of Us All

by | Jul 25, 2017 | Opinion

Back in the late 1980s, Dana Carvey of “Saturday Night Live” used to do a funny impression of President George H. W. Bush, in which the character would justify his own supposed timidity by muttering “wouldn’t be prudent” to himself about every small risk. The...
When is politics like a tree?

When is politics like a tree?

by | Mar 26, 2017 | Opinion

If you study and write about happiness as I do, you become attuned to patterns. For instance, when I walk into a workplace, I can usually tell, based on my first few conversations, if the environment is happy or not. And in the past couple of years, I have noticed a...