A Positive Take on 'Hate Mail'

Novelist William Giraldi, a contributing editor to The New Republic, recently wrote an essay on the modern phenomenon of online hate mail, most often ...

Building 20 at MIT Brought Together Diverse People

MIT used to have a famous office building simply called Building 20. This structure, located at the intersection of Main and Vassar Streets in East Cambridge, ...

Study Reveals Children Struggle with Deep Unhappiness

A new study published in the UK reveals that children are struggling with low self-esteem, loneliness, or deep levels of unhappiness. A free, private ...

Film 'About a Boy' and Our Need for Community

In the film About a Boy, Hugh Grant plays Will Freeman, a single, early-middle-aged slacker who lives luxuriously off the royalties of a Christmas song ...

Does the Church Suffer from Agoraphobia?

When I was young, growing up in the United Kingdom, my family and I could always count on our next-door neighbor, Mrs. Oglive, to be around. We left a ...

Social Isolation Crushes Body, Brain, and Spirit

For two of his five years in a Vietnamese POW camp, Senator John McCain was locked in a tiny isolation cell, cut off from all human contact. He was beaten ...

Isolation Can Make Us Ill or Dead

Recent research studies show how much we crave community and friendship. A study of 3,000 women with breast cancer found that those with a large network ...

Scientists Search for Life on Other Planets

In July 2014 a panel of scientists from NASA announced that they're convinced they will soon find life outside planet Earth. One NASA scientist said, ...

Famous People Talk about Loneliness

Many people struggle with loneliness—from the rich and famous to the poor and unknown. Here's a list of some famous people who have been honest ...

Research Shows that Loneliness Is Deadly

According to an article in Slate Magazine, "Increased loneliness has lead to the following serous health risks”:

• Studies of elderly people and social isolation concluded that those without adequate social interaction were twice as likely to die early.