Tabla de Contenidos: “…The lock-up -- A beginner's guide: understanding the lingo -- The most influential U.S. economic indicators -- International economic indicators: why are they so important? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Unto us a child is born -- People around us -- Another baby - will I dare? …”

“…In his brilliant and compulsively readable new treatise BREAKING BREAD WITH THE DEAD, distinguished professor and author Alan Jacobs shows us that engaging with the great writings of the past might help us live less anxiously in the present. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Our accelerating disinvestment in education -- The growing ascendance of the rich -- Our tenaciously expanding belief in force -- The sense nature can take whatever we dish out -- How the signs of incoherence cohere in pointing toward disintegration -- Skepticism about history -- Skepticism about beauty -- Skepticism about morality -- Skepticism about anything being known absolutely (absolute skepticism) -- "Fundamentalism will save us!" -- "God will save us from ourselves!" -- "The next election (or the one after that) will save us!" …”