Will something turn up?
Pizzas don’t order themselves and life as a whole is even less obliging. Chance will play its part whatever we do, but it will dictate everything only if we let it.
ReadAuthor: Julian Baggini
Ruby Wax interview
“I used to need 4,000 people looking at me, now I’m down to 400.”
ReadThe secret to happiness? It’s complicated
The old saw that when it comes to news, misery sells, has never looked so dubious. Happiness is hitting the headlines everywhere. But every time, it seems the story is different…
ReadWhat Money Can’t Buy
Sandel has raised a much-needed alarm, and even if how we respond to it may not be clear, respond we must. To do so, Sandel argues we need a serious public debate about what values we want our politics to build and defend. That means dropping the illusion that politics is about no more than efficient management of the economy: it’s about nothing less than competing visions of the good society.
ReadIs ego an asset?
When we think about big egos, we tend to think of cocky alphas, those self-satisfied, arrogant cigar-chewing successes – always other people, of course. But forget about individuals for a moment. Does Homo sapiens, as a species, need to have an inflated sense of itself in order to succeed?
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