Get Character

When Americans think back to the War of Independence, most are apt to feel that, had they lived back then, ...

You come home from a hard day at work feeling like you could use a stiff drink. You contemplate ...

My flight was awful. The restaurant's service was terrible. The traffic was horrible. My boss is the ...

When you welcome a child into the world, folks often tell you: “Savor this time. The days are long, but ...

I turned 40 last December.  No, I haven't had a midlife crisis.  But that number did cause ...

For almost the entirety of the history of media, gatekeepers controlled what content made it into the ...

Like every modern consumer, before I buy new sneakers, book a hotel room, or make a restaurant ...

When we think about Stoic philosophers, we typically think about the thinkers of ancient Greece and Rome, ...

When you take a step back from it, modern war is genuinely bizarre. Nation-states, formed by drawing arbitrary ...

To be successful at their craft, magicians must possess the well-honed technical skills to pull off their ...

In the mid-1980s, David Hemery set out to answer a burning question: "What makes a winner?" Hemery was ...

When people think of the paratroopers of World War II, they tend to think of the European theater — the ...

The charge to be well-mannered, to treat others with civility, kindness, and respect, is perennial. But ...

In the classic Aesop’s fable of the ant and the grasshopper, the ant works through the summer, storing ...

Discipline is essential to every success in life. It establishes the stable, well-ordered ground that ...

Do you feel stuck in life — that you aren't making progress in a relationship, job, or goal and you ...

When the video game Rock Band became popular, kids flocked to music lessons, inspired to learn how to ...

When Daniel Zia Joseph decided to join the Army at the unusually late age of 32, he solicited advice from ...

I enjoy browsing used bookstores. I like walking down the aisles, looking at the tattered spines of the ...

Note: This is a rebroadcast of a favorite episode from the archives. Writing an email while on a Zoom ...