July 4th, 2025, marks the 249th anniversary of the ratification of the Declaration of Independence and the formal beginning of the American Revolution. In just under 250 years, the structure of the ...

The demise of the English paper will end a long intellectual tradition, but it’s also an opportunity to reëxamine the purpose ...

Purpose in life, on the other hand, may be less dependent on these things, and so worth cultivating for its own sake. Fortunately, there are ways to deliberately find one’s purpose, even in midlife.

Joseph Epstein, conservative provocateur, tells his life story in full In two new books, the longtime essayist and culture warrior shows off his wry observations about himself and the world ...

Notwithstanding the complexities of how we make decisions and the different forces that influence those decisions, when you combine the concept that we are free to choose with the dual potential of ...

For example, students who included examples of leadership in their essays were more likely to graduate in six years than those who did not. The researchers did caution that as students—particularly ...

While the intention behind the creation of the personal essay might have been to give students a chance to shine, it took less than a decade for it to congeal into a genre thick with clichés and ...

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So, to answer the question “what is the purpose of life” — it’s what we choose. That’s one of the things which make humans different. Cecil Day Lewis’s poem The Volunteer was written for those who ...

So, Aristotle had no trouble concluding that perfection is the aim and purpose of life, including self-sufficiency in food being the end and perfection (The Politics 1252b27). Science ...

There was no household staff. No coffee waiting in the morning. No meals on the table. No schedule. No nuclear treaties to negotiate. No crises to solve. No cabinet meetings. The morning after ...