Author Archives: Daniel Friedman

Madrid, Spain — It’s just after ten p.m., and three men are standing in front of me, wearing red thongs on their heads. They have been wearing them in complete earnestness for over an hour. The woman on my left just took out her breast; she has been cradling an infant in her arms, and »

Three weeks into my first semester at Yale College, I am sitting across from the award-winning Psychology professor Marc Brackett. He is casually asking me to explain the difference between jealousy and envy. I can only think — is there one? The ability to decipher the difference between these two feelings is an example of »