I recently read The Chairs are Where the People Go , which is a fun collection of essays by Misha Glouberman, with Sheila Heti. The book is ...

Last month I read Steven Pinker's latest book, the ambitious 700-page The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence has Declined , and i...

Take a look at this great ad from Image Comics, one in a series featuring quotes from their creators. This one shows writer/artist Natalie N...

Great article in The New Yorker about America's gun culture, and almost in passing it mentions some superb statistics:  The bad news ...

I haven't seen the movie Bully yet, but I've read plenty about it, including this article in last week's The Week . I love the f...

My wife Rachel got this smoothie maker as a gift. (Yum!) It's hard to read in my fuzzy phone photo, but the company's name is Back t...

A new World Bank report on global poverty is so positive it even surprised me. The key points: Dire poverty continues to fall worldwide. No...