User Ranj

How to make hard choices was the subject of a recent TED talk from philosopher Ruth Chang. ( https://www.ted.com/talks/ruth_chang_how_to_make_hard_choices ) Her thesis is that hard choices are not about finding the better option between...

In response to the affair and resignation of David Petraeus, many have argued that such sex scandals are the absurd consequence of American puritanism. These people claim that sex is easily compartmentalized in a person's life, such that sexual...

Psychotherapist Brad Blanton claims that people should be "radically honest" -- meaning that they should say what they think all the time. (See http://www.esquire.com/features/honesty0707) Is that a life-serving policy -- or simply an excuse for...