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When did moderate become a political dirty word?updated: Sun Apr 01 2012 09:15:00

For months now, platoons of politicians have been filling the air with words.

Can a molecule make us moral?updated: Tue Dec 27 2011 07:36:00

The longest debate since humans have been having debates is whether we are good or evil. It underlies the stories of Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Jesus and Judas.

Paul Zak: Trust, morality and oxytocinupdated: Tue Dec 27 2011 07:36:00

Neuroeconomist Paul Zak shows why he believes oxytocin is "the moral molecule" responsible for trust and empathy.

Who was Karl Marx?updated: Sat Oct 29 2011 10:42:00

There are few philosophers whose very name provokes more violent responses than Karl Marx.

CNN producer near earthquake epicenterupdated: Tue Aug 23 2011 22:47:00

A CNN producer in Virginia describes feeling the initial shock from an earthquake near Richmond, Virginia.

Earthquake jolts millions on East Coast: 'This felt big'updated: Tue Aug 23 2011 22:47:00

Confusion and then an uneasy calm.

Dying at home, surrounded by familyupdated: Wed Dec 08 2010 12:43:00

Elizabeth Edwards died Tuesday, after doctors had told her further cancer treatment would be "unproductive." She was at home, surrounded by people who loved her.

Elizabeth Edwards dies at 61updated: Wed Dec 08 2010 12:43:00

After a hard-fought battle with breast cancer, Elizabeth Edwards passed away on Tuesday. CNN's Anderson Cooper reports.

Fortune: Why doing good is good for businessupdated: Tue Feb 02 2010 09:45:00

As unemployment crept toward 10% last year, the drug giant Pfizer decided to do a good deed. For customers who had lost their jobs during 2009 and lacked prescription coverage, Pfizer would supply 70 of its name-brand drugs, from Lipitor to Viagra, free of charge for up to a year.

Don't be a jerk during your next fightupdated: Thu Nov 19 2009 17:23:00

I can sum up in three "acts" the breakdowns and breakups of most relationships since the beginning of time:

Anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss rememberedupdated: Wed Nov 04 2009 14:49:00

Anyone who has taken an anthropology course has probably heard of Claude Levi-Strauss, who died recently at age 100.

Obama aide slams Fox Newsupdated: Fri Oct 16 2009 18:37:00

WH Communications Director Anita Dunn tells CNN's Howard Kurtz that Fox News Network is basically an arm of the GOP.

Obama aide fires back at Beck over Mao remarksupdated: Fri Oct 16 2009 18:37:00

White House communications director Anita Dunn fired back at criticism from TV commentator Glenn Beck on Friday, saying that a Mao Tse-tung quote Beck took issue with was picked up from legendary GOP strategist Lee Atwater.

Seduction tips from famous enchanting womanupdated: Tue Oct 13 2009 09:58:00

Lust, love and like. A healthful, happy love relationship serves up three out of three. A healthful, happy love relationship is a passionate best friendship.

'Soul is the ultimate G-spot for happiness'updated: Tue Sep 29 2009 09:12:00

When I was a teen, I tried to read the entire Encyclopedia Britannica. My goal: Memorize its contents, be on TV game shows, win cash and prizes, run away from home, move to Manhattan and become a professional writer.

After son's death in Iraq, father embeds with unit to tell his storyupdated: Thu Sep 17 2009 07:04:00

When the news came, Darrell Griffin hurled the phone.

Father finishes son's memoirsupdated: Thu Sep 17 2009 07:04:00

A loving father finishes his son's memoirs, a U.S. soldier in Iraq who was shot and killed by sniper fire.

SI.com: NCAA president Myles Brand dead at 67updated: Wed Sep 16 2009 21:32:00

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Myles Brand, who fired Bob Knight as Indiana University basketball coach and went on to become NCAA president, died Wednesday of pancreatic cancer. He was 67.

CNNMoney: Let's ditch the GDPupdated: Mon Sep 14 2009 15:32:00

Take an intellectual crisis in economics, mix in some French philosophy and cook for a year or two in the heated brain of celebrated economist Joseph Stiglitz. The result: a missed philosophical opportunity.

SI.com: Jim Kelley: Chaos reigns in the NHLupdated: Thu Sep 03 2009 15:33:00

Not to go all bookhead on you, my much-appreciated readers, but the current state of chaos in the NHL brings to mind a quote from the great German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche:

Awful words named for real peopleupdated: Wed Sep 26 2007 09:44:00

We all want to live forever. But, chances are, you'd rather forego a legacy altogether than have your name be synonymous with a goofy flub like a spoonerism or a dim-witted word like "dunce."

Latin phrases you pretend to understandupdated: Wed Sep 05 2007 21:18:00

Because you weren't going into botany, the priesthood, or coin manufacturing, you thought you were safe to dismiss Latin as a dead language. Obviously, you didn't graduate cum laude.

U.S. charges 8 over 'Tiger plot'updated: Mon Aug 21 2006 20:25:00

Eight men have been charged with plotting to buy surface-to-air missiles for Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels, U.S. federal prosecutors have announced.

Fortune: A Reason To Be Lazy This Summerupdated: Mon May 26 2003 00:01:00

After writing a book (My Job, My Self, Routledge, 2000) that established once and for all that we are what we do, Al Gini decided that we work too much. Himself included: Gini, 58, is a professor o...

Money Magazine: Costly ethicsupdated: Tue Oct 01 2002 00:01:00

$500 Annual corporate membership dues for the Greater Houston Business Ethics Roundtable

Money Magazine: The Value Master: Bill Millerupdated: Mon Sep 09 2002 18:21:00

Bill Miller has a different notion of leisure reading than most of us do. Here's a partial reading list (brace yourselves, Grisham fans): Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman, Wittgenstein's Place in Twentieth Century Analytic Philosophy, Shakespeare's Othello and King Lear. Oh, and he wants to read some poetry -- perhaps Paradise Lost, John Milton's tale of Satan's fall from grace.

Fortune: Scandal 101: Lessons From Ken Layupdated: Mon Sep 02 2002 00:01:00

Ethics and Management Courses FALL 2002*

Fortune: It's Bill Miller's Time The country's best fund manager has beaten the market ten years running by buying updated: Mon Dec 10 2001 00:01:00

Sitting in his 22nd-floor office overlooking the harbor in Baltimore, Bill Miller gazes at the computer screens on his desk and surveys the damage to his portfolio. It's Sept. 25, and investors hav...

Fortune: A Rare Skeptic Takes On The Cult of GEupdated: Mon Feb 19 2001 00:01:00

By now we've all heard plenty about the job Jack Welch has done running General Electric for the past 20 years. Is there any CEO or company more lionized than Welch or GE? Seems like it gets more p...

Money Magazine: Where The Bears Are Our columnist takes a tour of his favorite crankily contrarian websites.updated: Wed Nov 01 2000 00:01:00

Sometimes all the happy talk gets to be too much for me to take. The endless parade of perky analysts and too cheerful CEOs on CNBC. The magazines and e-mail tip sheets touting the five or 10 or 12...

Fortune: Why Germany Kant Kompeteupdated: Mon Jul 19 1999 00:01:00

A while back various versions of a fake European Commission document began circulating via e-mail. The memorandum argued that once a common European currency had been established, the obvious next ...

Fortune: Are We a Nation of Spendthrifts? The Hard Truth Behind A Silly Statisticupdated: Mon Feb 15 1999 00:01:00

Sometimes a meaningless statistic can call attention to an important problem. What is an economist to do? Point out the statistic's emptiness or be grateful that the problem is getting some attenti...

Fortune: Why Aren't We All Keynesians Yet?updated: Mon Aug 17 1998 00:01:00

This year is the 150th anniversary of Karl Marx's The Communist Manifesto, and the effort to rehabilitate the discredited prophet is in full swing. Never mind the dismal track record of Marxism as ...

Fortune: BEYOND THE END OF HISTORY? Ever wonder where humanity came from, where it's going, why communism failed -- and what Hegel was alupdated: Mon Feb 24 1992 00:01:00

Essays on the philosophy of history don't usually cause much of a stir among politicians and journalists. But when Francis Fukuyama's article ''The End of History?'' appeared in The National Intere...

Fortune: ARE WE AT THE END OF HISTORY? Yes, contends the author of a much discussed essay. The ideological wars are over, and liberal demupdated: Mon Jan 15 1990 00:01:00

''Bold and brilliant,'' trumpeted Chicago philosopher Allan Bloom when his former student Francis Fukuyama published ''The End of History?'' in the neoconservative journal The National Interest las...

Fortune: WHERE GOVERNMENT ALWAYS FAILS Ambitious social policies inevitably do the opposite of what was intended, argues Charles Murray iupdated: Mon Nov 07 1988 00:01:00

Books have power -- and in this decade few have shaped opinion and influenced events more forcefully than Charles Murray's Losing Ground. The Tom Paine of the Reagan Revolution, Murray eloquently s...

Money Magazine: SOFTWARE, WRIT LARGEupdated: Mon Apr 11 1988 00:01:00

WHEN FAILING HEALTH forced journalist I.F. Stone, 80, to stop publication of his feisty political newsletter 17 years ago, he turned to a lifelong dream: He taught himself classical Greek so he'd b...

Fortune: Guessing Wrong on Feminism, Rewriting William James, Staving Off the Old Folks, and Other Matters. Look Out for the Ideolog!updated: Mon Dec 21 1987 00:01:00

We now return to a grievance not mentioned for several years but urgently needing a good groan in the present period. Gripe in question: the media's tendentious use of ''ideologue'' and ''pragmatis...

Money Magazine: When to sell? How to sell? And, most important of all: Can you sell?updated: Wed Jul 01 1987 00:01:00

Unquestionably the toughest decision you face as a mutual fund investor is when to sell. The choice is tough enough when a fund has treated you poorly but can become even more difficult after a bul...

Fortune: The Case for Palaver, A Righteous Road to Big Bucks, Genetics in Albany, and Other Matters. Shad the Lawgiverupdated: Mon May 11 1987 00:01:00

We have a few sullen questions for John Shad, now in the news because he is raising $30 million for the Harvard Business School, with most of the money coming out of his own deep pockets. Genesis o...

Fortune: He Never Lost an Argumentupdated: Mon Apr 13 1987 00:01:00

Several decades ago, when I was an undergraduate at New York University, I had the enormous good fortune to discover Sidney Hook. A brilliant and inspiring lecturer, he was chairman of the philosop...

Fortune: THE BRAINS BEHIND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCEupdated: Mon Jun 10 1985 00:01:00

Recent advances in computer hardware and programming have given enormous commercial urgency to the ancient philosophical disputes about the nature of mind and thought. Nowadays, instead of Aristotl...

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