Column: ‘No one cares about crazy people’ documentary shines a spotlight on our mental health system

"Nobody Cares About Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of America's Mental Health" Written by Ron Powers. (Grand Central Publishing)

Some movies are meant to be fun, and that’s not a bad thing, but there are also some movies that try to change the world, and there’s some great stuff in there. “No one cares about crazy people” is one of the latter, decidedly smaller groups. The film will be shown at Columbia University’s Film … Read more

how to measure a good life

Three people standing in an elevator.

The Meaning of Your Life doesn’t trumpet free markets, praise entrepreneurs, or praise work as a “blessing,” as previous books did. Today, he claims that ambitious professionals, whom he calls “young strivers,” are living superficial and unfulfilling lives. In his view, what they lack is “the one thing you can never simulate. meaning” “Seven, then … Read more