At a loss to explain the spate of fatal school shootings in recent years, some educators and social scientists have turned to that eternal plague of childhood, bullying. The chances of eradicating ...

Humans are tribal creatures. We are made to belong to things — families, churches, communities, clubs, subcultures, teams, et cetera. Individuals deprived of these natural sources of belonging and ...

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Many powerful works of art across various media—movies, plays and novels—grapple with one of the key challenges of our time: the decline of the traditional pillars of identity, meaning and happiness, ...

A friend recently argued compellingly that two major gaps in the Harris campaign strategy affected voter turnout and engagement: a reluctance to acknowledge policy shortcomings and a failure to ...

Aging, an inevitable part of the human experience, is often accompanied by significant social, psychological, and physical changes. The concept of alienation, a term originally rooted in Marxist ...

Ukiyo-e (“Pictures of the Floating World”), a genre of Japanese art focusing on the portrayal of ukiyo (“The Floating World”), flourished from the 17th through the 19th century. During the Edo period ...