Alain de Botton is the author of The Course of Love. To fall in love with someone feels like such a personal and spontaneous process, it can sound strange—and even rather insulting—to suggest that ...

Jay Clayton, a professor of English literature at Vanderbilt University, describes the courses he has taught that focus simultaneously on 19th-century English literature and on “the strange, misshapen ...

Alain de Botton is the founder and Chairman of The School of Life. He is the best-selling author of The News: A User's Manual and, most recently, The Course of Love. To fall in love with someone feels ...

This is the story of educational romanticism in elementary and secondary schools —its rise, its etiology, and, we have reason to hope, its approaching demise. Educational romanticism consists of the ...

NEW YORK — There’s a reason the terms “romantic” and “romanticism” are so often preceded by the adjective “hopeless.” Romantics want to lose their identity in something bigger and deeper. But identity ...

If you’ve watched The Nutcracker, listened to Schumann’s Kreisleriana, or read Edgar Allan Poe, you’ve encountered the influence of E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776–1822), the man who dreamed many features of ...

Steve Jobs died a year ago October 5th, and we can expect his ghost to appear in any number of recollections and assessments as the anniversary approaches. I'd like to talk here about a spirit that ...

Jedidiah 'Jedi' Alex Koh is the Founder of Coaching Changes Lives, Asia's leading Coaching Firm Specializing in Team Leadership Development. With the exponentially complex and unpredictable world we ...