President Jimmy Carter was determined to restore a belief that government can be a force for good. How did America go from there to Donald Trump?

Stoicism was one of ancient Greece's philosophical movements founded by Zeno of Citium in Athens in the early 3rd century BC ...

In the past few weeks, the cynicism meter has ticked up several notches because of the decisions made by the outgoing ...

Today we use words and concepts coined by thinkers such as Plato or Epicurus, although often with a different meaning ...

This editorial, written by Francis P. Church, first appeared in the New York Sun on Sept. 21, 1897. It runs in The Daily Star again this year in honor of ...

Wouldn’t it be funny if Calvin were not the only one imagining things? Psychoanalysis doesn’t need to be real or reasonable. Here its make-believe meets the artist Bill Watterson’s make-believe.

Julie and I were playing pickleball in Maine. It was her idea, and I told her I would come along on my off day, so each ...

In the marble halls of the battle dome of American lawfare on December 4, Tennessee’s deputy solicitor general performed a brazen act of legal gymnastics: He argued to the Supreme Court that ...

But in the halls of the show, the degree of cynicism is jarring ... where he expresses his social critiques and humanist philosophy while protecting himself by remaining invisible in this ...

King's philosophy reminds us that courage isn't ... it is tempting to retreat into cynicism or inaction. But previous challenges remind us that courage, imagination, and the will to rebuild ...

And that philosophy shaped much of how I approached ... The Surprising Science of Human Goodness.” Jamil Zaki defines cynicism as the belief people are selfish, greedy and dishonest.