Freedom and Flourishing

I know that poetry can sometimes convey thoughts and feelings that tend to get lost in prose. Nevertheless, I don’t read much poetry. Readi...

Last week my attention was drawn to the findings of some recent research, led by Barbara Fredrickson, which suggests that eudaimonia – whi...

In Chapter 8 of my book, Free to Flourish , I suggested that the greatest threat to human progress over the next few decades is that democr...

Jeffrey Sachs has described his essay, ‘Restoring Virtue Ethics in the Quest for Happiness’ as highly speculative . That description is ap...