America has done an amazingly bad job dealing with the pandemic. There’s a strange sort of vertigo one feels upon hearing that in South Korea they’re enacting new restrictions because there are a ...

Not adapting an essentialist mentality may detract from what you really want. You may get a little bit of this and a little of that, but the meaningful and most essential things you want will be ...

You may have heard feminists accuse people who make blanket statements about people based on their gender of "gender essentialism." But what is gender essentialism, and why is it harmful? The concept, ...

Stan van Hooft does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

With which statement do you agree more? Statement A: People can behave in ways that seem ambiguous, but the central aspects of their character are clear-cut. Statement B: It is never possible to judge ...

A social category is a collection of people who share an important characteristic—Canadians, evangelical Christians, Olympic medalists, college graduates, gun owners, guitar players. You get the ...

War produces emotions unlike any other. Even for those observing conflicts from a safe distance, it is easy to identify with one side or another. In the 1750s, Venetian monks and gondoliers traded ...

Former Travel + Leisure editor-in-chief Nancy Novogrod and Joan Roca, whose background is in online travel, have launched Essentialist, a bespoke travel-planning company that uses a network of ...