Reading Time: 3 minutes Three new books examine a nation’s people at cross purposes and the potential for America’s new president to reconcile those differences
Category: Books
Finding meaning through the eyes of a survivor
Reading Time: 3 minutes Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl helps students embrace some of life’s most fundamental lessons
Patti Smith tracks rock heroes’ slide into ‘careerism’
Reading Time: 4 minutes Too many of today’s music stars have strayed into careerism and away from the revolutionary values that many of them began with
JFK and Reagan more alike than you’d think
Reading Time: 3 minutes Kennedy and Reagan have assumed sainthood status for their polarized parties and claiming continuity between them strikes many as rank heresy
B.C. author takes a different approach to spirituality
Reading Time: 4 minutes Paul Crawford draws on the wisdom of major religions to illustrate that spirituality is a natural human capacity for finding meaning in life
Culture the engine that drives economic and social success
Reading Time: 3 minutes Economist Thomas Sewell believes that for a culture to be successful it must learn to adapt and refine ideas that come from elsewhere
‘Radical Joe’ Chamberlain inspires new British PM
Reading Time: 4 minutes The new British prime minister is apparently an admirer of the Victorian-era urban reforming Radical Joe
There’s nothing new about foreign intervention in elections
Reading Time: 3 minutes Russian hacking of DNC emails? Sounds like business as usual in the modern history of political interference by other countries
How General Motors brought socialism to America
Reading Time: 3 minutes GM CEO Charles Wilson established a pension plan that would invest in the broader U.S. economy to ensure the protection of his workers’ pensions
Tackling literacy, one little free library at a time
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Little Free Library’s mission is to promote literacy and the love of reading by building free book exchanges worldwide