Some time ago I posted about a speech that Richard Nixon gave in 1956 mentioning the 4-day week. This morning, the Nixon library sent me a PDF of
[Update: More about the Nixon speech is here.] Recently in British magazine The Spectator, an article appeared explaining “Why Conservatives should support a four-day week.” I appreciated it
From the opening page of Rosamund E. M. Harding's The Anatomy of Inspiration: We venture to suggest, therefore, that the first step to the investigation of the creative
Within the discipline of history, the effort to use theories from the human and natural sciences-- e.g., psychology, psychoanalysis, biology, and other fields-- to explain historical change is
This Lawfare podcast with Mike Duncan, author of The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Late Republic, is well worth a listen if
Every now and then a reader suggests that some of the people I talk about in REST aren’t good role models because they were either bad people, or
I've written about my admiration of Charles Darwin as a husband and father, and the way he defied stereotypes of both Romantic Genius (which holds that really talented
Later this year Oxford University Press is publishing The Oxford Handbook of Spontaneous Thought, edited by Kieran Fox and Kalina Christoff. I have a chapter on the history of
Walter Dill Scott, in his 1914 book Increasing Human Efficiency in Business (available on the Internet Archive), advises workers on the need for hobbies: Upon entering business every young man should
If you ask people how they're doing, you'll often get some variation of "I'm so busy!" Many people make the mistake of confusing busyness with productivity; in fact, they're