pertinence of Locke’s brief but immensely influential tract, A Letter Concerning Toleration. In that work, Locke directly addresses a subject that is at the center of debate today: “how can people ...

New Year’s Eve fireworks over San Francisco. A Fresno professor urges readers to pursue wisdom, self-knowledge and maturity in 2026, reject malarkey and renew values for a better, more examined life. ...

When the time came for this column, I did a lot of thinking about an interesting topic. Thinking is at least half the job. What if thinking were the whole job? That’s all it took for me to land in the ...

I don’t know about you, but I recall always being told, growing up, about the importance of wisdom—as some kind of life-learning objective, as if it were the pinnacle of cognitive development. There’s ...