Are we getting better? Are we becoming less violent, more empathic, more caring? Is humankind evolving into humankinder? Harvard psychology professor Steven Pinker thinks we are, and he’s stated the case convincingly in his panoramic 696-page tome, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (2011). His argument is not new. Jeremy Rifken, in Empathic Civilization (2009), […]
It’s been said that we remember what we remember because it’s important to us in the present moment. As I reflect on Mother’s Day, three memories from childhood present themselves, each with a critical life lesson for today: 1. Racism is a sin. I am around 10 years old, looking out the front window of
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The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep. -Robert Frost A quick google search results in the following definition for the somewhat antiquated idiom of a certain age: “not yet old but no longer young.” I
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