The uses of history

The Economist, August 29, 2015 The 70th anniversary of Japan’s second-world-war surrender has exposed what is almost an obsession with history both in Japan and among some victims of its wartime aggression, especially in China and South Korea. […read...

Rethinking Work

Barry Schwartz, The New York Times, August 28, 2015 How satisfied are we with our jobs? Gallup regularly polls workers around the world to find out. Its survey last year found that almost 90 percent of workers were either “not engaged” with or...