When the interviewer asks if you have any questions for them, it’s your opportunity to show them how much insight, moxie, and knowledge you have stored up. Interviewers are probably–not unlike a date–sizing you up to see if you’re compatible with them (and maybe even the company). Part of the weirdo company courting process … Continue reading
Bringing out a good Latin phrase in a discussion is like brining a gun to a knife fight. It gets people’s attention. But if you are quoting Lucretius at the start of every meeting “nil igitur mors est ad nos” (Death, therefore, is nothing to us) you will sound like an absolute tool. Even if you are already using a … Continue reading
“When a mother works, something is lost,” the author Caitlin Flanagan once wrote. But when a mother leaves the work force, a great deal is clearly lost, too. Beyond the personal losses — the changes in the dynamic of a marriage or the cumulative financial effects of many years of not working — there is the … Continue reading
No politician will admit that the United States is no longer number one. But other nations do a lot of things better — and we need to learn from them. Young Americans who see this country from different shores can’t help but conclude that something is awry in a political culture that denies what they … Continue reading