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“I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.” – John F. Kennedy

Kennedy realized that people were agreeing with him and with each other because they didn’t want to feel out of place.

Barbara Boxer appeared on Bill Moyers last week, providing fresh insight into her relationship with James Inhofe as well as the strategic appeal that turned GOP Senator John Warner into […]

By weaponizing the global economy, the U.S. initiated a new era of economic warfare and transformed how major powers compete.

The legendary investor explains the transformative Objectives and Key Results goal-setting framework with an imaginary Super Bowl strategy.

An extraordinary haberdasher obsessed with buttons, lace collars, and death pioneered modern statistical analysis during the Age of Reason.

Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.

Adams was infamously scooped when Neptune was discovered in 1846. His failure wasn’t the end, but a prelude to a world-changing discovery.

The true story of the shot that “reverberated through England” when science collided head-on with religion.

In many ways, it was worse than Chernobyl.

“The Man in the High Castle” may be the most beloved alternate history book, but it is not the most historically accurate.

As a physician, John Pringle helped reinvent hygiene; as a husband, he destroyed a woman’s life with his abuse.

Not every classic enjoyed rave reviews from the start.

The Knights Templar were not only skilled fighters, but also clever bankers who played a crucial role in the development of Europe’s financial systems.

There are dozens of instructional design models, but most learning designers rely on a select few. Here are four of the most common.

Haters and disrespect aside, fruitcake is still a robust American tradition.

Released in 1972, “Ways of Seeing” has proven to be as worthy of study as the artistic traditions it investigates.

Many contrarians dispute that cosmic inflation occurred. The evidence says otherwise.

Astronomers possibly solve the mystery of how the enormous Oort cloud, with over 100 billion comet-like objects, was formed.

Most people seem to enjoy liberalism and its spin offs, but what is it exactly? Where did the idea come from?

Millions of doses of Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine could be distributed as early as this week.

There is no going “back to normal.”

They came from different places and with different ideas, which still resonate today.

On May 4, 1970, the National Guard shot and killed four students during an anti-war protest. The massacre went on to change American culture forever.

A study finds that while musical newbies exercise the brain’s so-called creative hemisphere, pros have moved on.

Johns Hopkins University professor Susan Carnell explains the neuroscience behind eating out of boredom (and how to stop).

The campaign promise could only become law if the Labour Party wins the general election in December.

By the time John Paul DeJoria founded John Paul Mitchell Systems, he’d already sold encyclopedias on commission door-to-door, and he understood the importance of persistence in the face of rejection. […]

Moving the needle forward on psychedelic research.

The Harvard Medical School’s clinical professor of psychiatry wrote the book on the topic.