Sociologist W.E.B. Du Bois was the psychologist we have never acknowledged. He warned us about double consciousness—psychiatry just called it psychosis.

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Fay Vincent, whose idealism and self-styled independence as baseball commissioner clashed with owners eager for war with the players’ union, leading to his resignation under pressure in 1992 ...

Emersonian idealism was part of a larger antebellum emphasis on moral perfectionism, a powerful cultural yearning for heaven on earth, which Higginson adopted along with temperance reforms, ...

Emersonian idealism was part of a larger antebellum emphasis on moral perfectionism, a powerful cultural yearning for heaven on earth, which Higginson adopted along with temperance reforms ...

Comedy wasn’t always Noam Shuster Eliassi’s purpose in life. But as true callings sometimes do, stand-up found this immensely charismatic and funny intellectual eventually. After all, the ...

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Americans once dreamed of a country that did not care about global greatness or glory. It was within our reach if we had been wise enough to grasp and hold it.