“CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL-MARTINEZ’S FATHER GETS IT RIGHT”

“The war against euphemism and cliché matters not because we can guarantee that eliminating them will help us speak nothing but the truth but, rather, because eliminating them from our language is an act of courage that helps us get just a little closer to the truth…

“Ask Polly: How Am I Supposed to Make Friends in My Late 20s?”

“This is the downside of living in a gigantic country like the U.S.: You move away for college, you move away for work, you move away because you meet a great guy or girl, and one day you wake up and you’re 2,000 miles away from anyone who knows you really well…

“What Corporate Climbers Can Teach Us”

“But such co-workers may possess a dose of one of the personality traits that psychologists call the “dark triad”: manipulativeness, a tendency to influence others for selfish gain; narcissism, a profound self-centeredness; or an antisocial personality, lacking in empathy or concern for…

“Why ‘How I Met Your Mother’ connected so deeply with the younger generation”

“In addition to capturing nostalgia, there are many reasons the show caught on…

“32 Times Tumblr Was Too Clever For Its Own Good”

“LAWRENCE KUSHNER — KABBALAH AND THE INNER LIFE OF GOD”

“the Jewish mystical tradition of Kabbalah is a rich, magnetic world of thought and teaching. It has resonance with modern understandings of reality — and describes a cosmic significance to the practical moral call to tikkun olam, “repair the world.” Rabbi Lawrence…

“How the French Revolution Gave Birth to the Third World”

“Before the French Revolution, the Estates-General were France’s legislative body, comprised of the First Estate (the aristocracy), the Second Estate (the clergy) and the Third Estate (the commoners — aka, everyone else). In 1789, the Abbé Sieyès, a philosopher and…

“Buzzfeed’s founder used to write Marxist theory and it explains Buzzfeed perfectly”

“the paper argues that, going forward, capitalism will need to be constantly producing identities for people to adopt at an ever-increasing rate.…”It is this identification ­­with a model, athlete, or actor­­ that encourages the purchase of…