The Declaration of Independence states that our inalienable rights include “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” Life and liberty are easy to understand, but that last phrase is less intuitive. How can people have a right to strive for happiness?
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Uniting to Fight Poverty: A TED Talk
How do we solve problems like poverty with so much political polarization?
Welcome to the Pursuit
To pursue our happiness, to achieve our liberty, and indeed to find fulfillment in our lives, we must start with a moral consensus, a fundamental truth around which we all revolve. Think of an atom. The outer field of electrons is full of chaotic activity. Electrons are rapidly orbiting and moving in a constant buzz. What contains that chaos and gives it structure? The fact that the whole chaotic cloud orbits one central nucleus.
An Engineer-Turned-Baker on What Is the True Quality of Life
Income differences are often the result of career choices and training. For instance, few would expect an engineer and a baker to make the same amount of money. But what if you’re an MIT-trained biomedical engineer who decides to open a bakery? Well, clearly, the true quality of life decisions aren’t based on finances, but on fufillment.
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How Journeyman Electricians Were “Gifted” a Second Chance to Succeed
Second chances are easier said than given. But that doesn’t mean there are no second chances. In fact, one electrical engineering firm decided that it was going to invest in second chances, and since then, business has snowballed.
For the Weifield Group in Denver, Colo., it was an evolution, and then, ultimately a conscious decision by the company’s owners to create an environment where people were involved in something bigger than themselves.
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Secular and Sacred: How Faith Inspired Business in the Great Outdoors
Faith gets dismissed a lot in this day and age, but for those who believe in God, whatever their religion, a true love of the Almighty is an inspiring mechanism from which to launch a business.
Indeed, a faith-inspired business is what Greg McEvilly set out to do after he started his path toward the ministry and then realized he had a knack for entrepreneurialism.
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Best Friends, Opposing Views: Getting Along in the Age of Disdain
In a world of “fake news” and “filter bubbles,” can you really maintain friendships with people who disagree with you?
If Robbie George and Cornel West are any indication, the answer is not only yes, but that people on “the other side of the aisle” can be the best of friends.
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Want to Work? Then Don’t Wait For Universal Basic Income
Americans who have a job and feel successful at it are more than twice as likely to say they’re “very happy” than people who don’t meet those conditions. Having a reason to set our alarm each morning gives a psychic benefit that goes way beyond a paycheck.
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How Feeling Needed Will Improve the Next Four Years
America has gotten pretty good at helping struggling people, but pretty terrible at needing them. Our nation is rendering millions of people effectively superfluous. This violates human dignity. And now we are seeing the results.
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Where Do Immigrants Live in the US?
Since the 2008 recession, the states with net-inflows of immigrants have changed dramatically from preceding years. According to the U.S. Census, the number of immigrants moving into the U.S. as a percentage of pre-existing immigrant populations is occurring in the Eastern United States, specifically Washington, D.C., Florida, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Maryland, and Virginia.
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Treating Opioid Addiction: A Holistic Approach to Recovery
Dr. Sally Satel is a psychiatrist who has spent more than 25 years treating patients with opioid addiction. She has seen highs and lows that would make a roller-coaster jealous. But she also sees light on the horizon when it comes to treatment.
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Loving v. Virginia: Has America Finally Caught On to ‘Land of the Free’?
“Race remains a potent and often divisive force in our society,” President Obama said in his farewell speech a week before leaving office. Undeniably, race relations appear to have taken a turn for the worse in the last eight years, but no matter the cause, Americans have come a long way toward accepting interracial relationships.
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What’s Better Than Nationalism? Internationalist Nationalism
Can “internationalist nationalism” appeal to those who wish to protect what they have and also demonstrate the benefits of others succeeding? It would probably depend on understanding what internationalist nationalism is. First, the word...
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