A few years ago, I bought a gratitude journal. This was right around the time that gratitude lists were becoming popular, so I jumped on the bandwagon. I started every day by listing three things I’m grateful for. It would look something like this: I’m grateful for my wife.  I’m …

For Henri Tajfel, the study of genocide was personal. He was a Polish Jew who served in the French Army during World War II. He was captured by the Germans but survived the Holocaust because they didn’t realize he was Jewish. Although he escaped death, many of his friends and …

At the beginning of this school year, I took a seemingly radical step. It’s common for law professors (particularly men) to wear business suits in class. When I first started teaching, I would wear a suit because everyone around me was also doing it. Plus, I didn’t yet have tenure …

Imagine you’re in a jail cell. You grip the bars, you kick and scream, you curse the guards to let you out. Except the jail cell was designed by you. You’re the master architect of your own prison, the iron bars that constrain your thinking, and the chains that hold …