NYTimes: The Luxurious Growth

The latest cultural commentary by one of my favorite cultural observers, David Brooks discusses how little we know about ourselves.
Scientists used to claim that human behavior would be fully explicable via genes, and other boring stuff. Nowadays, modesty reigns supreme, as scientists realize that humans are a species incapable of categorization or complete logical explanations. [...]

NYTimes: Big Paycheck or Service?

One of the perennial struggles of the educated class is discussed in this recent NYTimes Education section article: the decision of graduates from top universities to pursue the traditional business-oriented career route or the less financially stable route of public service. To me, this is one of the fundamental conflicts of our culture: the desire [...]