You’re reading Open Questions, Joshua Rothman’s weekly column exploring what it means to be human. Take your young kid with you as you commute through Penn Station and you’ll find that you have a lot ...

“On legacy, one of the main messages in Hamilton is: you don’t get a say,” Lin-Manuel Miranda explains. “All you get to do is make what you make, and the world will do with it what it does.” The ...

Most people have goals to get ahead and even know, in principle, what steps to take to achieve them, but just keep not taking those steps. For instance, a successful designer does beautiful art on the ...

It has been swirling around the head for nearly a week. After decades of never hearing Come Out Ye Black and Tans, I’m going around humming it to myself. But we're not back in rebel territory: after ...