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  • Is Your Job Bullshit?

    Before we get to that question, let’s discuss what we mean by a bullshit job. The defining feature of a bullshit job: one so completely pointless that even the person who has to perform it every day cannot convince himself there’s a good reason for him to be doing it. He might not be able…

  • How the Bible was Written

    The earliest portions of the Old Testament are held to date from the tenth or eleventh century BCE, while the latest (the book of Daniel), comes from the Maccabean period of the second century BCE. The time-span for the New Testament is much shorter. The earliest of Paul’s letters stems frok C.50 CE; the majority…

  • Why Westerners Are WEIRD People

    Who are you? Perhaps you are WEIRD, raised in a society that is Western, Educated, Industrialised, Rich, and Democratic. If so, you’re likely rather psychologically peculiar. Unlike much of the world today, and most people who have ever lived, we WEIRD people are highly individualistic, self-obsessed, control-oriented, non-conformist, and analytical. We focus on ourselves —…

  • How to Raise a Child with a Temperament

    Parental horror stories about placing difficult children are all too common. But in most cases, where effective understanding and intervention starts early it need not come to that. As National Institute of Mental Health psychiatrist Stanley Greenspan shows us in his book The Challenging Child, parents can actually help their children make the most of…

  • Tibet: A Rare Non-violent Political Struggle

    In the late 1980s the big news was that peace was breaking out in Asia. One after the other, from Afghanistan to Cambodia, the killing fields happily reverted to their traditional role of feeding people. And Asia — or those regions racked by invasion and civil war — prepared for a long break from slaughter.…

  • The Writer’s Goal by Guy de Maupassant

    [The serious writer’s] goal is not to tell us a story, to entertain or to move us, but to make us think and make us understand the deep and hidden meaning of events. By virtue of having seen and meditated, he views the universe, objects, facts, and human beings in a certain way which is…

  • Hills Like White Elephants: A Short Story by Ernest Hemingway

    The hills across the valley of the Ebro were long and white. On this side there was no shade and no trees and the station was between two lines of rails in the sun. Close against the side of the station there was the warm shadow of the building and a curtain, made of strings…

  • Rushdie and Pakistan: By 2021 Nobel Laureate in Literature

    In 1983 Salman Rushdie published Shame, about which the novel’s narrator, at times unmistakably the novelist himself, has this to say: ‘I tell myself this will be a novel of leavetaking, my last words on the East from which, many years ago, I began to come loose.’ It turned out to be a mistaken prediction,…