St. Augustine wrote that there were two kinds of love in the world: amor sui ad contemptum Dei et amor Dei ad contemptum sui — “love of self to the contempt of God and love of God to the contempt of ...

“The chances are good you won’t last here your entire life.” These words were the first ones spoken to us eight novices by the archabbot on our first day inside the cloister. “And even if you do make ...

September 30, 2014, 10:00 a.m. EDT 4 Min Read Forty years ago, Friedrich August von Hayek received the Nobel Prize in economic sciences for his "pioneering work in the theory of money and economic ...

When friends remembered actor Chadwick Boseman, mourning his recent death, his humility is what seemed to come up the most. (Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images for Disney) Breaking news: I’ve ...

For at least 170 years, modern scholars of psychology have recognized humanity’s capacity to prove to themselves that their opinions are correct, as Charles Mackay wrote in 1852: “When men wish to ...

On Sept. 17, 1787, the delegates to the Constitutional Convention signed the Constitution. Just before they did, Benjamin Franklin, 81 and too weak to speak, asked Pennsylvania delegate James Wilson ...

Let this serve as a lesson: If you intend to enter the elite workforce that is NFL quarterbacking, you had best come correct — with a healthy respect for the process, the humility to acknowledge that ...

In my last article, I explained that “my conservative stock-picking approach stems from personal financial losses during the Great Recession.” Having once been a successful real estate developer worth ...

Sometimes, words are abused so severely that they come to mean the opposite of what originally was intended. Once upon a time, something that was "awesome" was to be feared. It's become the "groovy" ...