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We spend a lot of time working. How can we make our work lives more meaningful?
The average American spends a third of his or her life working.
Across the United States, from rural areas to cities and suburbs, people have been hitting the streets to protest racism and police brutality.
It's already difficult to talk about politics in a polarized United States, but a few choice words are making it even harder.
How has extreme individual freedom led to a crisis of isolation?
Yale's Laurie Santos gives a crash course on how to feel less stressed and depressed.
Looking around and experiencing the suffering and injustice in the world can make it difficult to believe that happiness exists. But the Judeo-Christian tradition teaches that it’s sinful to succumb to despair, and we have a responsibility to ourselves and others to try and find our way through dark times. On the other hand, when you avoid suffering, you avoid meaning, and...
In today’s world, we tend to switch jobs more frequently than previous generations, and are more likely to have multiple jobs. Side gigs where we express passions or find meaning are also common, and many juggle additional roles as caregivers and community members, as people always have. In short, many of us are focused on a lot more than just climbing a corporate ladder....
Should rules govern demeaning, disparaging, and degrading speech directed at certain groups?
People are in constant conversation with their dogs, says dog scientist Alexandra Horowitz, and dogs pick up on things like our tone of voice. "We think meaning is all in the words but for them, the meaning is in the context, and they’re working very hard to understand it.” Horowitz studies dog cognition and the relationship between dogs and their human owners. She runs th...
In the United States, the number of people attending church is declining. So where are people going to find meaning and community?
The Covid-19 crisis isn’t easy to bear as adults but what about young kids and teenagers?
Is the English language deteriorating before our ears?
Christian Picciolini went to his first white supremacist skinhead meeting at age 14.
How can colleges better address students' mental health issues?
How the clothing industry can change to help the planet.
Cheryl Strayed live at Aspen Words.
When Duke divinity school professor Kate Bowler wrote her best-selling memoir, “Everything Happens for a Reason (and Other Lies I’ve Loved),” she was grappling with the consequences of a shocking cancer diagnosis. Many of the common messages about hardship, tragedy and success that she’d grown up hearing – and even studied as a religious scholar – no longer seemed to make...
What might we learn from the past about the current state of politics and democracy in America?
Actor Rainn Wilson had his dream job on the hit TV show “The Office,” but was still being kept up at night by anxiety, depression, and life’s big unanswerable questions. He went on a quest to discover the world’s spiritual teachings, reading all the holy books of the world’s major religions. For several years, he researched and pondered concepts like truth, love, free will...