“Freedom, ‘I’dom, ‘Me’dom, where’s your ‘We’dom?” It’s an unequivocal call for compassion, sympathy and solidarity. Pop artist M.I.A.’s seemingly stoic but nonetheless fierce mien prefaces a stark ...

I wrote this essay with Anthony Evans and Gideon Goldin. It is common to think that emotions interfere with rational thinking. Plato described emotion and reason as two horses pulling us in opposite ...

You can’t fight for what’s right if you’re so emotionally decimated that you’re living your day-to-day in fight-or-flight ...

The American legal system is based on a useful falsehood. It’s based on the falsehood that this is a nation of laws, not men; that in rendering decisions, disembodied, objective judges are able to put ...

If you’re bilingual, moral choices can often feel more urgent and emotionally charged in one language yet distant and rational in another. This raises an intriguing question: does language merely ...

In his Jan. 31 op-ed, “The Ayn Rand Contradiction,” Rainer Zitelmann writes: “Her cultural significance comes not from her powers of rationality but rather her appeals to morals and emotions.” This ...

When toddlers melt down and teens snap back, it’s natural for us to have emotions. Some parents feel overwhelmed or out of control. Others try to push their emotions away. Emotions, after all, can be ...

As children, they had all learned that their emotions were not accepted in their childhood homes. As children, they all had, ...

Emotional intelligence (EI) is the ability to recognize, understand, and manage your own and other’s emotions. People who are high in EI tend to have more satisfying personal and professional ...