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We all have heard stories of great artists, writers, whomever, who for years toiled in obscurity and poverty, some getting fame and...

Many of us love dogs, but we know too that they can be a hassle, too: soiling the carpet, shedding, barking at the wrong time, getting...

One of the most famous writers of the twentieth century was Frenchman Albert Camus (1913-1960). And one of his most famous passages went...

A powerful story comes out of the bombing of Hiroshima. One morning, a mother had packed lunch for her teenage son who went off to...

Even if they never watched him, most people know the name Larry King, who had been host of Larry King Live, which at one time was CNN’s...

Edward Teller was known as the “father of the hydrogen bomb,” a label he later came to hate. Before one of the first tests of the bomb...

Philosopher Slavoj Zizek told a story about the great physicist Albert Einstein entering the home of another great physicist, Neils Bohr....

One of the most famous intellectuals of the last century was Sir Bertrand Russell (1872-1970). He was British, a political activist,...

More than a century ago, Frenchman Guy de Maupassant wrote a short story called “The Necklace” about a young French woman named Matilda...

In 1924, a wire article from The New York Times ran with the following headline: “Hitler Tamed by Prison.” The article, less than a...

One of the most famous sections in modern literature came from the pen of German author Frederick Nietzsche. He had a madman running...

Acclaimed Norwegian author Ove Knausgaard wrote: “While observing the crowds circulating in the concourse below, I thought in twenty-five...

In a fascinating bestseller by Andrew Ross Sorkin, Too Big to Fail, which told about the 2008 financial crash that devastated the world...

The New Yorker magazine ran a powerful article written by a father whose infant daughter had just died. “One of the most despicable...

Years ago, the Washington Post ran a full-page ad. It was titled, “District of Columbia Unclaimed Property List.” It began: “The District...

The ancient historian Herodotus told a story about the Scythian empire (today Turkey, parts of Eurasia, Crimea, parts of Iran) in the...

In 1968, ecologist Paul R. Erhlich wrote The Population Bomb, in which he warned that “hundreds of millions of people would starve to...

“In the final analysis,” wrote Frederick Nietzsche, “one experiences only one’s self.” He’s got a point, a good one, actually. When we...

History is filled with the human hope of utopia, an ideal place where so much of the pain, suffering and social ills of human society...

Russian poetess Marina Tsvetseva (1892-1941) lived a hard life, which ended when she hanged herself as the Second World War started. In...