In Rome there is a monastic ossuary, a boneyard, which is not unusual in itself. But there you will find the skull of a monk long-departed from this life. On it is inscribed, “As you are now so once ...

Mark Twain apocryphally said, “I’m in favor of progress; it’s change I don’t like.” This quote pithily underscores the human tendency to desire growth while also harboring strong resistance to the ...

“With what shall I come before the Lord and bow down before the exalted God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old? Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, with ...

We need humility now more than ever. Recent trends in America suggest that by several different metrics, narcissism may be on the rise. Self-aggrandizing and entitlement have poisoned relationships ...

“Check your privilege” and “stay in your lane” are, to my mind, amongst the ugliest of contemporary platitudes. They are aggressive and unnecessary extensions of the classic psycho-spiritual ...

Harrison Ford had been defeated. However, the victor was not a red lightsaber-wielding Kylo Ren in a galaxy far, far away, but rather, a nobody. In 1976, on his first day as president of Yeshiva ...

My late friend Jim Rainey was one of the toughest leaders I ever knew. When he was hired to lead a giant agribusiness enterprise, the organization had for years been hemorrhaging millions in operating ...

The Hook (“Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself” by Alan Alda, Random House, $24.95): While vacationing in Chile, Alan Alda — actor, writer and director at the peak of achievement — experiences ...