The first trick of the powerful is to make others feel powerless. But let’s linger on that word trick for a moment. Because it’s got a telling ancestry. It comes from the old French meaning to cheat or deceive. So if the first deception, the first cheat, of

The other afternoon, I drove slowly home in thick snow, listening to an interview with a reporter who covers conflict. How are you doing right now? the host asked. Leaning hard into spiritual resilience, the reporter said. Making sure I’m doing the things that I love, that fill me

I once heard a wildly successful tennis player say that we can be motivated by one of two things: fear or love. Fear is a familiar face these days. Fear for beloveds, ourselves. Fear about who we are to each other. Fear that our country can’t find a path