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Among the books he's authored is one on schadenfreude called The Joy of Pain.

Well, I've been studying the history of family life for many, many years, but I specifically got interested in marriage as we got into these debates about what traditional marriage was.

Marriage originally arose in more egalitarian band level societies as a way of sharing resources and establishing peaceful relations with groups that you might otherwise only see occasionally and you might not know if they were going to be friends or enemies.

You couldn't run a farm with one person. You couldn't run a bakery with one person so people who were bakers married other bakers.

And so there was a long period of time where men actually were more romantic than women in the courtship arena.

Women worked in the home but so did men. And men didn't go out and bring home the bacon. Women helped raise the pig. Maybe the man butchered it, but the woman often cured the bacon and took the bacon to market.

One example of this comes from the bestselling book by Elizabeth Gilbert about walking out on her husband and trying to create a more meaningful life for herself.

We'd only bought this house a year ago. Hadn't I wanted this? I had actively participated in every moment of the creation of this life. So why didn't I see myself in any of it?

Eli is the author of The All or Nothing Marriage and he has a very dramatic term for the challenge that many couples face today.

So I realized that marriage had in fact changed radically in terms of the way we expect it to fulfill our needs in America that is and it used to be that marriage was about basic economic survival.

and so our expectations of marriage have basically ascended from the bottom to the top of Maslow's hierarchy over the course of American history

You're thinking it over Archie and George. I will gladly give my breasts over to you for whatever purpose you choose. George, you would wear them on the odd days. Archie, on the evens and I'd be free to get back to work, to get back to sleep at night, to end the constant and unrelenting fondling.

I saw that play like 500 times because that was the play that was being produced the summer I was there, like the worst summer of my life.

And so it was really, um, no, it's just so complicated and ridiculous because I basically had to watch a play about a woman who was raped confronting her rapist.

Nobody planned it, Margie. It just happened. Honest to God. I mean, well, boys are always talking about wanting to do it with this one or that one. And everybody was always saying they'd love to do it with you because you were, well, beautiful, but nobody really meant it jumping.

It's just when George here, well, started, everybody wanted to, to everybody liked you. You liked me, Arch? I did a lot. And that's how you showed me you liked me? I was strict out at first. I was. Otherwise, Margie, the first words you would have heard whispered in your ear would have been, I love you because I did. And I do. I do still, Mark.

This is Focus on the Family, hosted by psychologist Dr. James Dobson, the author of such best-selling books on the family as Parenting Isn't for Cowards.

J.K. Rowling, when she was struggling to finish The Deathly Hallows, rented out this big suite at the Balmore Hotel next to the big castle in downtown Edinburgh where she'd go and just think Harry Potter-style thoughts.

Karamit Rider has spent more than a decade researching the effects of loneliness on these inmates. She's a professor of criminology at the University of California, Irvine, and the author of the book 23-7, Pelican Bay Prison and the Rise of Long-Term Solitary Confinement.

Karamat Ryder is a professor of criminology at the University of California, Irvine and the author of 23-7, Pelican Bay Prison and the Rise of Long-Term Solitary Confinement.

Karamit Rider is a professor at the University of California at Irvine. She's the author of the book 23-7, Pelican Bay Prison and the Rise of Long-Term Solitary Confinement.

Once upon a time, a baby named X was born. This baby was named X because no one could tell whether it was a boy or a girl.

It's an X. Mr. Jones said smiling back. But the clerk got all red in the face and said huffily, well in that case, I'm afraid I can't help you, sir.

The point of the Baby X tale is to highlight all the ways gender stereotypes act as rules for children, from the clothes they wear, to the sports they play, to the interests they're encouraged to pursue.

He's the author of I'm Not a Terrorist, But I've Played One On TV.

I did another bit in my special called I'm Not a Terrorist, But I've Played One On TV.

This is a clip from your comedy special, I'm Not a Terrorist, But I've Played One On TV.

I was speaking yesterday with Sarah Ogilvie at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. She's the co-author of the book Refuge Denied about the voyage of the St. Louis.

I've written about these issues. I wrote a book called FDR and the Jews.

Our society is in the midst of a full-blown narcissism epidemic.

I'm fascinated by one point that you make in your book, which is a lot of this might start very early with a cultural emphasis on building self-esteem and on encouraging young people to follow their dreams.

Jean Twenge is a psychologist and the author of the books Generation Me and The Narcissism Epidemic.

Jean Twenge is a psychologist and the author of the books Generation Me and The Narcissism Epidemic.

George Orwell in his review of Mein Kampf back in 1939, I'm not crazy about ad hitleriums but this was a particularly insightful piece. He said what is it about Mr. Hitler that appeals? What is the essence of the problem?

Capitalist societies offer their people ease, avoidance of risk and pain, security, in short the good life. And what is the result? Well the Oxford Student Union, the cream of our intellectuals, votes they will never fight again. And Mr. Hitler, what is he offering his people?

Matthew got the idea for the Peer Bonus System from Laszlo's book, Work Rules,

which is all about how organizations can find and keep talented people.

You talk at length in your book about the importance of getting employees to think of themselves not as employees, but almost as founders, as owners of the enterprise.

Laszlo Bach is head of Google's people operations. He's also the author of the book Work Rules, insights from inside Google that will transform how you live and lead.

In 1905 Sigmund Freud wrote a book called Jokes and their Relation to the Unconscious and one of the points he makes is that jokes are usually violations of deeply held taboos.

One Morning in Maine is the classic story from Robert McCloskey.

And the whole first half of the book, or maybe twothirds of the book, is about Sal kind of playing with that idea.

He's the author of Covering, The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights.

you know something that comes up in different religions and different texts that you shouldn't spoil sacred events in Judaism a book called The Talmud they debate some of these situations they say you should always tell a bride she's beautiful on her wedding day because why would you spoil that special time no matter what you really think