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A century ago, a German sociologist explained precisely how the president thinks about the world.

A visit with a family in mourning

Excessive use of the drug can make anyone feel like they rule the world.

Amway sold my family a life built on delusion.

The billionaire handled his ownership admirably for more than a decade. But his courage failed him when he needed it most.

For the first time in decades, America has a chance to define its next political order. Trump offers fear, retribution, and scarcity. Liberals can stand for abundance.

Elite schools breed entitlement, entrench inequality—and then pretend to be engines of social change.

1. A Minecraft Movie, a live-action film based on the best-selling video game (in theaters Friday)
2. The Bondsman, a horror-action show starring Kevin Bacon as a resurrected bounty hunter who must find the demons that escaped hell (premieres Thursday on Prime Video)
3. Pathemata, or, the Story of My Mouth, a book by Maggie Nelson detailing her diaries about a decade of dreams and jaw pain (out Tuesday)

To say that long-distance runners embrace difficulty is to say the obvious. When you watch many thousands of people happily push themselves through a race that they might not even be allowed to finish, though, you start to get the hint that something deeply human is going on. People like things that are really hard. In fact, the enormity of a task often is why people pursue it in the first place.