Your choice of words might seem random, but linguists and psychologists have discovered that certain verbal patterns betray deeply rooted personality characteristics. Modern computational language ...

I think everyone agrees that words are powerful, but I'm not sure that everyone adheres to the importance of our words. I remember once when I was on vacation in Florida, visiting Cape Canaveral.

Each week, as I sit down to write my column, I’m visited by the ghosts of columns past — topics I once thought essential, opinions I clung to like a lifeline. With time, urgency gives way to gentler ...