Just How Influential Is Oprah?
When Oprah Winfrey tells people, “I am here to ask you to think seriously,” apparently they do. She really did...
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Did Video Kill the Radio Star? MTV at 40
On August 1, 1981, rock music’s second revolution started. The first didn’t have an official starting point, but Elvis Presley’s...
Perversion of Justice or Divine Providence?
On May 9, 1985, John J. O’Connor wrote a story for The New York Times under the headline, “Bill Cosby’s...
Michael Jackson Has Lived on After Death
Dear Michael Jackson, This is the first letter I’ve written to a dead person, though you’re still alive in a...
The Link Between Sports and Mental Health
“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche didn’t have the afflictions of athletes...
Why Do So Many Athletes Have Mental Health Issues? – Fair Observer
“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche didn’t have the afflictions of athletes...
What’s Going On, 50 Years On
What is it about some great artists that makes them want to be someone else? Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the...
What Frankie Lymon and Britney Spears Tell Us About Fame
Self-annihilation is a constituent part of many celebrity careers. While some actors or singers slide smoothly from one success to...
The Not-So Private Life of Elizabeth Taylor
“The Elizabeth Taylor who’s famous, the one on film, really has no depth or meaning to me,” the Hollywood icon...
We Are All Guilty of Enabling Meghan and Harry
“We all know what the British press can be like and it was destroying my mental health,” Prince Harry said...
