As the year comes to a close, we naturally turn to familiar wishes: happy holidays, good health, success in the year ahead. These words are kind, necessary, and deeply human. And yet, they are no longer enough. We are living at a moment in history when individual well-being cannot be […]
We live in a time that, in theory and even in statistics, should be humanity’s brightest age. Never before have we had such access to education, science, and information. Knowledge that once took centuries to accumulate and only a few had the privilege of time to access it (either because of distance […]
The other day I was chatting with a neighbor from the village (in Romania), a simple man, yet with a kind of quiet, natural wisdom. He was telling me, with a restrained sense of pride, about his son-in-law who works in Germany. “He’s got a great job!” he said. “His […]
