Stuff happens. Things don’t always go our way. Do most of our troubles result from overwhelming external circumstances beyond our control? Or are problems self-created? A popular viewpoint in some ...

A popular New Age view that rankles me is that we create our own reality — and that we become what we think or believe. A related view is that we’re responsible for everything that happens to us. If ...

The aide said that guys like me were “in what we call the reality-based community,” which he defined as people who “believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality. That ...