Country Singer Merle Haggard's Restless Soul

Country music icon Merle Haggard (1937-2016), had 38 of his albums appear on Billboard's country-music top 10 charts (more than a dozen made it to ...

Teaching Kids the Power of Struggle

New research from social scientists has revealed that telling kids stories of real-life "superheroes" and "geniuses" is a good idea—if ...

Tom Hanks on the Fear of Faking It

In his film (2016), A Hologram for the King, Tom Hanks plays a middle-aged American businessman who is sent to Saudi Arabia for a special project. The ...

The Law Can't Set Us Free to Play

Imagine you are twelve years old again, and you love baseball. All your heroes are baseball players, all your extracurricular time is spent either with ...

Jim Carrey's Search for Fulfillment

What will enough ever be "enough"?

Comedian Jim Carrey presented a similar struggle at the 2016 Golden Globes ceremony. Before announcing the ...

Psychologists Identify the 'Imposter Syndrome'

In 1978, two American psychologists, Pauline Clance and Suzanne Imes, observed what they called "the impostor syndrome." They described it as ...

Astronaut Goes On Strike In Outer Space

In 1974 Colonel William Pogue became the first American to go on strike—in space. The astronaut was part of the last, and longest, manned mission ...

We Pretend To Be Busier Than We Are

An article on Quartz begins, "In an era of limitless technology and information, life can feel at once empowering and overwhelming—especially ...

Dustin Hoffman's Biggest Fear: Failure

Dustin Hoffman, a double Oscar-winner, and a screen legend in no danger of having that title taken away. But he's worried about the future. In an ...

Novelist Amy Tan on Pressure from Mom

The New York Times interviewed the Chinese novelist Amy Tan, a woman who has written some powerful books about the immigrant and minority experience in ...