happiness

Can a professor’s affair with a student diagnose what ails our culture? When that professor gets a celebratory profile in The New Yorker, the answer is, a resounding — and depressing — yes. Agnes Callard is a married University of Chicago…

Redemption is actually not a religious term. The act of redeeming someone goes back to ancient times. It was the practice of buying back a servant or loved one who had been kidnapped. This payment was the ransom. Redemption is needed when…

Ahead of Valentine’s Day, a new study from the Survey Center On American Life found that Republican men and women are significantly happier in marriage than their Democrat counterparts. According to the survey, “Republican men…

If your neighbors seem depressed, that’s because they probably are. Americans are the unhappiest they’ve been in more than half a century, and they’re not having children. According to new data from the General Social Survey highlighted…