The Humblest People in Washington
What can cloistered Poor Clares who pray all day (and have never heard of Oprah) teach the rest of us?
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Snobs in the Groves of Academe
Where did academics get the idea that their profession is nobler than others?
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Learning from Anthony
Anthony was in his late-thirties, had some degree of brain damage from a childhood injury, worked custodial jobs most of his life. He signed up for job training. Why?
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Boxing with Humility
The author felt like an Ivy League Smokin’ Joe Frazier before he received that edifying punch to the snout.
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King Minos's Modest Scribe
Humility helped Michael Ventris conquer the Everest of classical enigmas.
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The Little Way of Ruthie Leming
A family and community learn that Ruthie has been diagnosed with metastatic lung cancer. How do they cope?
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Really Not Simple
Marie Antoinette liked to dress up as a shepherdess and hold court in her “rustic” cottage at the Petit Trianon. So humble.
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Gentlemen First
What I wanted was to see that Saturday in Petersburg, Virginia was not the famous battlefield, though that is well worth a visit, too, but Sycamore Street, where my grandfather, a major influence in my life, lived as a boy. Walking along Sycamore, passing the park where the Petersburg Volunteers drilled in 1812, I spotted an oddity: a tombstone, of all things, in front of a private house.
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The Gateway
We often think of humility as groveling or pretending to hide our gifts. Sir John Templeton had a much more bracing and productive idea of what this virtue really is. “Humility,” Sir John said, “is the gateway to greater understanding and opens the doors to progress.”
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Best Seats in the House
Anonymous stagehands don’t need their names in lights to know they are making a contribution to the theater.
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