Most people are very thin-skinned and easily upset when it comes to receiving criticism. Even when criticism is constructively intended, the receiver may be sensitive and respond with feelings of ...

“You’re such a slob.” “You shouldn't be eating that." “Are you dumb?” “Can you stop laughing so loud—it's embarrassing.” "Why would you ever wear something like that?" Abuse Can Be Subtle Most people ...

Although any form of criticism can feel like a personal attack to the highly sensitive soul, the ability to listen and respond to feedback is necessary to make it in the industry. Taking constructive ...

Good morning and welcome to the Monday edition of the New York & New Jersey Energy newsletter. We’ll take a look at the week ahead and look back on what you may have missed last week. DISADVANTAGED ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Kelefa Sanneh, a music critic writing for The New Yorker, about his essay "How Music Criticism Lost Its Edge." Here's an irony of this moment. Some people say the most ...

JTA — A group of liberal US Jewish scholars has offered a definition of anti-Semitism that grants more leeway to Israel criticism than the one that Jewish groups are pressing governments to adopt. The ...

Of the character sketches that the English satirist Samuel Butler wrote in the mid-seventeenth century—among them “A Degenerate Noble,” “A Huffing Courtier,” “A Small Poet,” and “A Romance Writer”—the ...

A task force promoted by leading liberal Jewish leaders released a new working definition of antisemitism on Monday that challenges the one being promoted by Jewish establishment groups. The ...

The word “antisemitism” appears in the Globe regularly, but it’s unclear whether criticism of Israel is included in those references. Since the Globe frequently cites the Anti-Defamation League, which ...