Years ago, one-time `presidential candidate Mitt Romney was criticized for saying corporations are people. The guy who beat him, Obama, called corporation that used inversion unpatriotic. One might argue that criticizing corporations for being unpatriotic is to accept that they are people. In the United States, corporations are legally persons—and the Supreme Court is devoted…
This essay is adapted from the nineteenth chapter of my book Figuring. In the first autumn of her thirties, Emily Dickinson wrote to her confidante and eventual editor Thomas Wentworth Higginson: I had a terror — since September — I could tell to none, and so I sing, as the Boy does by the Burying…
“You can expect good and bad luck, but good or bad judgment is your prerogative.” Dougal Robertson (January 29, 1924–September 22, 1991) was still a teenager, the youngest of a Scottish music teacher’s eight children, when he joined the British Merchant Navy. After a Japanese attack on a steamship during WWII killed his wife and…
“I have always felt that a human being could only be saved by another human being. I am aware that we do not save each other very often. But I am also aware that we save each other some of the time.” “Yesterday has already vanished among the shadows of the past; to-morrow has not…
What kind of punishment is best for minor infractions? New research suggests that people like approaches in which the transgressor experiences some of the harm they created.
Examining control and abuse in Belle Burden’s book, “Strangers.”
The most successful people are not always the most fulfilled. Sometimes achievement is an attempt to heal a wound that success cannot reach.
An ER doctor and marriage and family therapist shares her experiences with the ebb and flow of executive function capacity.
