As Steven Pinker writes in his mind-altering new book, "The Better Angels of Our Nature," we are living in the middle of an "empathy craze".
As Jeffrey Garten writes in his new book, "The Mind of the C.E.O.," "The big question is whether today's C.E.O.'s have the savvy and the stamina to defeat the dot-coms, which is the first leg of the race, and then run this second, more difficult and much longer race against their peers -- or whether it will take their successors to do it".
As Howard Gardner writes in his book, The Unschooled Mind: "As institutions, schools have become increasingly anachronistic, while museums have retained the potential to engage students, to teach them, to stimulate their understanding, and, most important, to help them assume responsibility for their own future learning".
"Reactionaries are not conservatives," the political essayist Mark Lilla writes in his new book, "The Shipwrecked Mind: On Political Reaction".
As Daniel Levitin writes in his new book, "The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload," we have a "culturally universal and innate" impulse "to protect our young, even the young of those not related to us".
They conveyed instead "strangely exhilarating despair," as the intellectual historian Mark Lilla writes in his new book, "The Shipwrecked Mind" (New York Review Books), a collection of essays on philosophical and religious reaction.
"But he paid a steep price for it".Fela Kuti named the commune after his first prison cell .The idea of creating a place open to every African escaping prosecution began taking shape in my mind," he writes in his biography ("Fela: This Bitch of a Life"), after he returned from a tour of the United States.
One wrote letters in his mind to everyone he knew.
Sentences and paragraphs would write themselves in his mind, and at such times he would have to come to shore every so often to discharge them.
He would shower at 8, using the occasion to dream of characters and write sentences in his mind.
