Put retired profs to work
Some time ago, in a study analyzing the central values undergirding North American life, the late Robert Bellah and his colleagues argued that rampant individualism had become...
Don Morgenson
The power of music in comparison to sex
There is more pleasure to be derived from music than from sex A Stanford University professor analysed the responses of many and found 96 per cent experienced thrills in...
Limits of Reflection
I have always valued what Socrates recommended — the examined life, the reflective life; to turn inward, thinking about how we might improve ourselves and improve the state of...
Living in the now puts future generations at risk
People of today are thoroughly modern; we are compelled by the new and toss the old into oblivion to make room for the new Anti-historical or at least ahistorical, we often...
Poverty is present
The New York Foundling Hospital opened in 1869 in response to the alarming infant-mortality rate and is one of the oldest social service agencies in North America It was designed...
The stigma situation
Severe mental illnesses cut with a double-edged sword On one edge are the biological and social factors that affect the course, which can lead to psychotic symptoms, diminished...
Liberal arts an important discipline
Certainly no one needs to remind students that job hunting and employment opportunities are not exactly rich in these recession-prone times And for me, a very outspoken advocate...
City of Waterloo: intelligent or wise?
A prominent characteristic of our age is the speed with which we have pushed outwards the boundaries of knowledge There have been more scientific, technological and social...
Pressures of university unnecessary
The university system has become a pressure cooker Students are pressured to be admitted, to be academically competitive and to take the right courses Students face the...
Beauty privileged in the workplace
Defining beauty is like “corralling a cloud” Yes, it might be difficult to define, but we sure know it when we see it, or at least think we do In every age and on every...