In The Icarus Syndrome, Peter Beinart examines three examples from the past century where America overestimated its power- World War I, Vietnam, and Iraq. In each case, a new generation came about ...

Strong leadership rests on a foundation of humility. Have you noticed how leaders with self-assurance bordering on arrogance fill the news? Such portrayals usually imply that resolute certainty is the ...

People with the Dark Triad personality, who manipulate anyone and everyone to get their way, can easily be regarded as the most toxic of individuals. Even adding the fourth quality of sadism, forming ...

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In golden Greece the Periclean playgoer knew by heart the Pride & Fall theme of classic tragedy. Hubris (νβÏis) was the offense of the honest but haughty mortal who thumbed his nose at the gods and ...