Tag: needs of others
What Students at Yale Don’t See About Their Own Success
The writer Rob Henderson recalls a classmate at Yale, where he was an undergraduate, telling him that “monogamy is kind of outdated.” But she was raised by monogamous parents and said that she planned to have a traditional marriage.
Henderson shares that anecdote in his new memoir, Troubled, an account of his upbringing in foster care and his escape into the Air Force and higher education. For him, “Monogamy is kind of outdated” is a “luxury belief,” a term
Do You Have Free Will?
Writing a review is an exercise in free will. Not only can I tell you what I want about the book and whether I liked it or not, but I also get to choose how to begin. If I decide to start with a personal anecdote, that’s what you will get. And I have the ability—the freedom—to start in other ways instead. These facts may seem too obvious to mention. But they are denied by Robert Sapolsky, a professor
Review: ‘A Wild Idea’ and the Conservationism of Douglas Tompkins
This article was published online on August 5, 2021.
Patagonia as many of us imagine it was born in 1968. That year, the vast region of South America became an exotic destination for outdoor adventure. Of course, residents of Chile and Argentina did not need their backyard discovered any more than Native Americans needed Christopher Columbus. But to a group of young men in