Now that former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has some time on his hands, I’d like to book him as a trainer for public figures. He’s got a message folks from all walks of life could use: Be humble ...

Lawrence M. Krauss is a theoretical physicist and president of the Origins Project Foundation. This essay is adapted from the epilogue of his new book, The Edge of Knowledge. One of the chief ...

A sense of perspective -- an ability to step outside ourselves and our daily preoccupations and see things on a larger scale -- can be a powerful thing. It can help us understand what is important and ...

An excerpt from an editorial that appeared first in the San Jose (Calif.,) Mercury: The lessons of Iraq, 10 years on, are manifold and painful. But looking back on the debacle, there is one thing the ...