How to Train Your Brain to Crave Lifelong Learning (And Why It’s Good)

I am in love with lifelong learning. It was not always that way, however.To be perfectly honest, I used to think that the only way to learn was in school. And I was not always a big fan of “conventional learning”, unless it was a course that really interested me.It was not until I expanded […]

Bookworm review: Lucy Mangan looks back at the books that inspired a lifelong love

LUCY MANGAN’S passionate, amusing and nostalgic reflection upon her favourite children’s books deserves to become as much of a classic as the novels she revisits. The magic of Bookworm lies in its evocative trip down memory lane. Mangan roams widely through the canon of children’s literature from Where The Wild Things Are to The Wombles, […]

‘Keep America Great!’ Trump unveils re-election slogan, says was joking about ‘lifelong presidency’

President Donald Trump has trialled his 2020 re-election slogan at a rally in Pennsylvania, vowing to ‘Keep America Great’. He reiterated that he was joking about making himself president for life. “Keep America Great!” will be Trump’s slogan at the next election, whether or not he faces Oprah Winfrey at the hustings, he told the […]

Justice League review 'What is WRONG with critics?' Lifelong DC fan blasts UNFAIR reviews

The critics seemed to have had their knives sharpened in eager anticipation of a DC bloodbath.  The troubled Justice League finally hits cinemas worldwide this Friday and the reviews have gleefully torn it apart. It currently holding a disappointing 48% aggregate on Rotten Tomatoes. But is this fair? Are critics truly the best placed to […]

Is this lifelong activist a future Speaker of the House?

Welcome to The Wilderness, an OZY original series charting how Democrats are trying to climb out of their historic hole.Read more. To those who are triggered by every tweet, who considered decamping to Canada to escape Donald Trump’s presidency, Karen Bass feels you. But the four-term congresswoman for California’s 37th District has seen worse. As […]

If There’s One Thing ‘Girls’ Taught Us, It’s That Growing Up Is a Lifelong Project

When viewers stumble upon Girls five or ten or twenty years from now, they’ll be watching a different show than the one that ended its six-season run last night with a rather unceremonious episode called “Latching.” The experience of watching Girls these past five years has been inseparable from the experience of reading about the […]