Yes, the ways in which standardized bubble-in tests are open to abuse are rampant—and gaming of test scores has increasingly important repercussions. In the long run it leads to an increasingly toxic ...

In a recent post, I discussed the old saying "It is what it is" as a useful adage that could serve us well as a cognitive frame for how we engage worry. I received a lot of interesting feedback, much ...

Congressman Tom Emmer, a member of the House Committee on Financial Services, has distributed a tweet calling the definition of an Accredited Investor “absurd.” The SEC’s accredited investor ...

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson offered an absurd definition of the word “allegiance” Wednesday. “I was thinking, you know … I, a U.S. citizen, am visiting Japan. And what it means is that ...

Absurdity is everywhere—it’s in the ridiculous characters of TV shows like What We Do in the Shadows or It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, in the surreal memes we scroll past on social media, and even ...

Beckett’s creation incarnates everything that “Theater of the Absurd” has come to represent. Two hobos, Estragon and Vladimir, are waiting for Godot (pronounced in the production GOD-oh). They have an ...

“The Literature of the Absurd” is a reflection on prominent authors in the Absurdist tradition — Beckett, Camus and beyond — and the ways in which their writings can intertwine with life in sometimes ...