As steel mills and other industry began shutting down across the Rust Belt in the recessions of the 1970s and 80s, a small group of Ohioans got together to try save their town and do more with less. Over the next 10 years the sides of dilapidated buildings in Steubenville,...

Philosophy can change your life.

I first became familiar with Alain De Botton through his book How Proust Can Change Your Life. In it, Alain argues for a specific method to approaching great literature: as a guide for life rather than passively received knowledge, and in doing so he...

10 years ago this Christmas my sister made a proposal that would change the way we celebrate the holidays forever. My sister and I were in college on opposite ends of the country and we only met all together in Colorado a couple of times a year. It was a...