Every Christmas, I take inventory of the holiday gifts that my wife, Elysha, gives me. Some people wish for cashmere sweaters, the latest gadgets, stylish watches, and jewelry. My hope…

My Patriots are back on top of the NFL. As a season ticket holder for many years, I'm thrilled to have a great team on the field again. This season,…

Marchetti’s Constant is the idea that, throughout human history—from cave dwellers to ancient Greeks to modern-day New Yorkers—people tend to commute for about an hour a day: 30 minutes out,…

I hate the snapping of approval that has become so popular these days. I was telling a story on stage last week when a handful of people in the front…

Every summer and during the Christmas holiday, Howard Marks, the co-founder of Oaktree Capital Management, writes a memo for all to see about his investment strategies for the upcoming season.…

I love this story: My friend owns a business that requires large, expensive machines to cut and shape metal. One of the machines he recently bought has been defective. The…

The Guardian reported on words most hated by a selection of English poets. These included: redacted pulchritude appall Pulchritude, by the way, means "physical beauty or attractiveness." It's one of…

Cup stacking, also known as sport stacking, has become a regular activity in many physical education classes around the United States. More than 5,000 American schools now include stacking in…

A survey asked Americans what time period they would want to live in and found that: 40 percent said they would prefer to live in the present, 45 percent would…

In the novel "Breakfast of Champions," Kurt Vonnegut writes: "I make my living being impolite." So rarely have I read a sentence and felt so instantaneously envious. I can only…