That's a line from a Yeats' poem, appropriately entitled "A Drinking Song." Love did indeed come "in at the eye" for the distinguished classics scholar Mary Beard. In her new book called, Talking ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Jason Riley, Allysia Finley and Kim Strassel. Photo: Mike Segar/Abdul Saboor/Reuters Human beings are highly social creatures, made happier and ...

My husband, Don, will talk to anyone. In line at a store, on a plane, in a parking lot; it doesn’t matter where we’re at, he’ll engage. In fact, I have my current job because he was gregarious enough ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Senate Republicans have for weeks been debating the use of the “talking filibuster” to guarantee the passage of the SAVE America Act in the upper chamber, after President Donald Trump called the ...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) told reporters Wednesday that there’s not enough consensus in the Senate Republican conference to increase the chances of advancing voting reform by forcing ...

An old professor of mine once demonstrated to me that if I described a headache out loud—its color and shape, what substance it was made of, what it would say if it were a 6-year-old—it would often ...

Maryellen MacDonald is professor emerit of psychology and language sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of “More Than Words: How Talking Sharpens the Mind and Shapes Our World.” ...

Nintendo has rolled out the red carpet for Super Mario Bros. 40th anniversary party. As revealed during this morning’s hour-long Nintendo Direct, we’re getting a movie, Super Mario Galaxy ports, a ...

Emotional intelligence is the secret sauce to getting ahead, both at work and in life. Even if it doesn't come naturally, having explicit conversations about feelings can help us understand each other ...

For a band that broke up under a cloud of bitterness, Talking Heads still appreciate a good celebration. The recently released biography “Burning Down the House” (HarperCollins, 512 pages) from New ...

Documentary interviews, TV news anchor segments, YouTubers explaining skincare routines, and Michael Scott making awkward eye contact with the lens all have one thing in common: the talking head video ...