I remember Arthur Brooks as the president of the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank that champions free market solutions to social problems. Back in 2011 he came to Messiah University (the school where I teach) to debate Jim...
According to public intellectual Arthur Brooks, the internet has created “an explosion of nonsense.” He’s right. Let’s take my discipline of American history for example. If you read this blog, you know that there is a lot of bad history...
Brooks says that “the secret to satisfaction has nothing to do with achievement, money, or stuff.” No argument here. Here is a taste of his recent piece in The Atlantic: I write a column about human happiness for The Atlantic and teach classes on...
The editors at USA Today asked me to reflect on Trump’s performance at today’s National Prayer Breakfast. Here is a taste of my piece: Prayer is a spiritual discipline. In the Christian tradition, spiritual disciplines take the focus off us and put...
