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But Cowperthwaite didn’t believe it. Stripped of his numbers an economist would have to resort to the old home truths about how the world works: If you tax someth...

Wisdom from G. K. Chesterton: “If the characters are not wicked, the book is.” We must tell stories the way God does, stories in which a sister must float her lit...

That increased satisfaction, however, may merely mask the fact that younger workers also suffer in open offices. In a 2005 study, the psychologists Alena Maher an...

If you can manage to read three novels a day, you might just about stay afloat, but then what about the previous years’ floods, only a little smaller as you...

Now, as a senior professor at the University of New Hampshire, where we are a little less pretentious, I more readily confess my gaps. Of course, I have fewer to ...

In Narnia, as Joe Rigney, author of “Live Like a Narnian,” told me on “BreakPoint This Week,” Lewis has created a complete and total world that helps us live bett...

If the reader will suspend his disbelief and exercise his imagination upon it even for a few minutes, I think he will become aware of the vast re-adjustment invol...

The picture of Eli happily browsing George III chinoiserie tripod tables is so un-Manning-like that it actually manages to be a little startling. It just makes no...

He’s stressed out enough that you don’t quite want to be him, but benevolent enough that you’re glad he’s out there.—The Dad-Rock Prometheus I thought Brian...

Still, Portland has benefited from its image as a fashionable city: According to research by Greg Schrock and Jason Jurjevich, two urban-studies scholars at Portl...