For months now, platoons of politicians have been filling the air with words.
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.
Neuroeconomist Paul Zak shows why he believes oxytocin is "the moral molecule" responsible for trust and empathy.
There are few philosophers whose very name provokes more violent responses than Karl Marx.
A CNN producer in Virginia describes feeling the initial shock from an earthquake near Richmond, Virginia.
Confusion and then an uneasy calm.
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.
After a hard-fought battle with breast cancer, Elizabeth Edwards passed away on Tuesday. CNN's Anderson Cooper reports.
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.
I can sum up in three "acts" the breakdowns and breakups of most relationships since the beginning of time:
Anyone who has taken an anthropology course has probably heard of Claude Levi-Strauss, who died recently at age 100.
WH Communications Director Anita Dunn tells CNN's Howard Kurtz that Fox News Network is basically an arm of the GOP.
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.
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.
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.
When the news came, Darrell Griffin hurled the phone.
A loving father finishes his son's memoirs, a U.S. soldier in Iraq who was shot and killed by sniper fire.
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.
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:
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."
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.
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.
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
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.
Ethics and Management Courses FALL 2002*
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
''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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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