In the new book “On Giving Up,” psychotherapist and essayist Adam Phillips explores what it means to really participate in ...

sometimes even passing off the universal wisdom of mankind as his own discovery--"Was it really Freud who first disclosed such commonplaces?" asks Crews. On the other hand, if what he says is ...

It is idle to illustrate further, because to those who agree with me I am uttering commonplaces and to those who disagree I am ignoring the necessary foundations of thought. The a priori men ...

Whereas the bulk of what he might have said, the dog bites man kind of sentences, will of course be rejected as simple commonplaces, the sort of thing that would be invented or projected upon ...

Certain commonplaces concerning racial and gender equality remain at least to some degree hegemonic, as does a degree of concern for the natural environment unthinkable before the '60s. Even Reagan's ...

They are summarized in almost every elementary textbook on educational psychology, and are one of the commonplaces at teachers' gatherings. Practically every professionally trained teacher in ...

Pablo Helguera has exhibited and performed individually in many museums and biennials around the world. He is the author of several books including Education for Socially Engaged Art (2011), The ...

Students of Joyce will recognize them as commonplaces. Others will accept them as authoritative precisely because the author presents them as informational, without substantial evidence. Having ...

A discarded “rumor deflator” briefly launched by AP to address outlandish stories during the war was a precursor to the fact ...

There is no need to repeat the commonplaces about bravery and honor. But we and our soldiers should remember that it is not the mere performance of set work that is required of them, but the ...

The following originally appeared on Oct. 8, 1995: One of the commonplaces of our American faith is it is better to let criminals go free than to convict an "innocent." Before we commit a person ...