What is the purpose of life? There are as many answers to this age-old question as there are people, and they run the gamut from hopeful to nihilistic to, well, nonexistent. Here are just a few famous ...

Do you have a purpose in life? The answer to that question might be a key to your health and happiness, according to an ever-increasing body of research. The concept of "purpose in life" is sometimes ...

This season we are tackling the four pillars of resilience: Purpose and Meaning Beliefs and Mindset Habits and Practices Relationships and Supports In the last post, we examined the protective power ...

We talk a lot about the power of purpose for clarity or customer loyalty in the context of business. But in personal self-improvement, we often focus on diet and exercise. It turns out that purpose is ...

1. The dysfunctional Karamazov family is at the heart of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s magnum opus. In rural 19-century Russia, Fyodor Karamazov is a neglectful father to Dmitri, Ivan and Alyosha. When Fyodor ...

Rights and Responsibilities is a recurring series by Richard Garnett on legal education, the role of the courts in our constitutional structure, and the law of religious freedom and free expression.