Viktor Frankl, M.D., author of the seminal "Man's Search for Meaning." Photograph courtesy Franz Vesely/Viktor Frankl Archive. Beginning Monday, March ...

But ask about the best books to read about life, the kinds that have been life-changing for those who’ve read it, and again and again, certain titles pop up in thoughtful threads where strangers swap ...

There is something almost paradoxical about describing a paralyzed and bedridden man's cheerfulness as heroic.

I have often wondered if hope still mattered to young people when the meaning itself has become increasingly fragile. For ...

I recently saw my friend N. to discuss a business that we’re planning to pursue together. We met not at a cafe or restaurant but at the lobby of a hospital. I thought he was sick but it turns out he ...

She lived what modern psychologists call "post-traumatic growth" decades before the term existed, turning poverty and ...

The distance running icon, who died Wednesday at 80, taught me to endure. In December, we shared his final run.

As observers of Russian society, we believe this ambiguity in Russian public opinion gives President Vladimir Putin the cover ...

David McGarry reflects on Cicero’s hierarchy of values and insights about human nature with a view to understanding virtuous ...

In the vulnerable hours between midnight and dawn, when the city sleeps and defenses crumble, taxi drivers become accidental confessors to the secrets we're too afraid to whisper in daylight.

Three-time U.S. Olympic medalist Lindsey Vonn has gotten a lot of attention for deciding to compete in the Olympic Games on a ruptured ACL. It is astonishing enough that the 41-year-old is still ...