We Americans are growing increasingly disenchanted with the institutions on which we depend. We can't trust them. They disappoint us. They fail to give us what we need. This is true of schools that ...

Wisdom is the type of knowledge that matters. It has both a moral and practical component to it that knowledge does not. Additionally, not only does wisdom enrich our lives by ushering us to make wise ...

What does practical wisdom mean in today’s world? Does the answer rest in your response to certain questions? Are you a practical person? Or, do you consider yourself a wise person? If you answered ...

LONG BEACH, California – Swarthmore psychologist Barry Schwartz, author of the Paradox of Choice delivers the final presentation of TED 2009 on Saturday. He spoke previously at TED about the suffering ...

Ali-Akbar Abdorrashidi is the translator of the book published by Torang in Tehran. The book is a reasoned yet urgent call to embrace and protect the essential, practical human quality that has been ...

America’s response to the Covid pandemic has shown that two popular models for public leadership—the governing novice who relies on ideology or “common sense” and the brainy technical expert who ...

I am not a runner. I nearly failed high school gym because I walked the required cross-country course run. I didn’t run for exercise at all until age 27, when my now-wife (two-time marathoner, ...

This post was written by Barry Schwartz and Ken Sharpe, as will all subsequent posts on this blog. We Americans are growing increasingly disenchanted with the institutions on which we depend. We can't ...

I believe I had a rare experience in my doctoral program in theology. I was given a seminar on the art of teaching. Often the challenge of mastering a discipline is so great that no attention is paid ...