Our Shrinking Attention Spans
Recently, in an essay titled "Escaping Media Control" I cited research on the length of TV commercials in 2020, the [...]
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07, 2024
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08, 2023
Our Urgent Need to Examine Ideas
In a recent essay I noted that critical thinking is a more reliable guide to behavior than emotion, provided it [...]
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08, 2023
Valuing God’s Incomparable Gift, the Human Mind
Rodin's The Thinker The Bible tells us that God created humans in his "image and likeness." What does [...]
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01, 2023
A Worthy New Year’s Resolution
Pope Benedict XVI died in December 2022; Queen Elizabeth, a few months earlier. Not only were both mourned throughout the [...]
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12, 2020
The Victims of Hatred
I recently examined the source of the hatred that has metastasized in America in recent years, and I found it [...]
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01, 2018
A Different New Year’s Resolution
Common New Year’s resolutions involve quitting something such as smoking or drinking, eating too much, being too sedentary, being rude [...]
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09, 2016
Isn’t Self-Esteem a Good Thing?
A perceptive friend told me that, though she agrees with my often-expressed criticism of the self-esteem movement (see, for example, [...]
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10, 2014
Adjusting Our Expectations
There is an old saying, “Blessed are those who expect nothing, for they shall not be disappointed.” Whether it was [...]
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02, 2014
The Pharisee’s Confession
I know it couldn’t have happened, but imagine that the Pharisee in the famous Gospel parable had gone to confession. [...]
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01, 2014
Learning from Our Mistakes
Albert Einstein famously defined insanity as “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” By this [...]