Forcing people to eat together is an effective way to promote tolerance.

Though debts are condemned in the financial world, the world of friendship and love may perversely depend on well-managed debts.

We accept the need to train extensively to fly a plane; but think instinct should be enough for marrying and raising kids.

Our disrespect for thinking: someone sitting in a chair, gazing out of a window blankly, always described as 'doing nothing'.

People who readily accept the need for a gym will resist that their personalities might need some work too.

as the determinants of high status keep shifting, so, too, naturally, will the triggers of status anxiety be altered.

Choosing a spouse and a choosing career: the two great decisions for which society refuses to set up institutional guidance.