William James

The Will to Believe in the Vibrancy of Life

She caught our eye in 2007 on a short-lived network comedy. Then, she broke through […]

1. I recently had a conversation with an elderly woman who became supremely concerned over […]

From the, er, esteemed psychologist’s Psychology, A Briefer Course: “With no attempt there can be […]

This one comes to us from Joe Nooft: I love sad movies: the tear-imposing, hope-impairing […]
“Where God is, tragedy is only provisional and partial, and shipwreck and dissolution are not […]

An interesting editorial in Monday’s NY Times by Richard Sloan, entitled A Fighting Spirit Won’t […]

Quite the humdinger from William James’ The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human […]

1. Ross Douthat in the NY Times echoed what many have been saying about the […]