This post was written by Barry Schwartz and Ken Sharpe, as will all subsequent posts on this blog. We Americans are growing increasingly disenchanted with the institutions on which we depend. We can't ...

LONG BEACH, California – Swarthmore psychologist Barry Schwartz, author of the Paradox of Choice delivers the final presentation of TED 2009 on Saturday. He spoke previously at TED about the suffering ...

Psychologists and sociologists studied average people to determine how everyday people understand wisdom and uncovered a set of characteristics shared across North America that shape today's ...

When the small liberal arts college where I teach locked down in mid-March due to COVID-19, we found ourselves, as in schools everywhere from kindergartens to the Ivy League, adjusting on the fly to ...

What does practical wisdom mean in today’s world? Does the answer rest in your response to certain questions? Are you a practical person? Or, do you consider yourself a wise person? If you answered ...

America’s response to the Covid pandemic has shown that two popular models for public leadership—the governing novice who relies on ideology or “common sense” and the brainy technical expert who ...

We Americans are growing increasingly disenchanted with the institutions on which we depend. We can't trust them. They disappoint us. They fail to give us what we need. This is true of schools that ...

I believe I had a rare experience in my doctoral program in theology. I was given a seminar on the art of teaching. Often the challenge of mastering a discipline is so great that no attention is paid ...

A common assumption among some masters of the universe and their legions of young admirers is that capitalism benefits from childish impulses. For what else is the spirit of “move fast and break ...