In January 1848, James Marshall was building a sawmill by a river near present day Sacramento when he found a piece of glowing metal on the floor, which turned out to be gold. Once rumours of the ...

Research shows that social media use, especially problematic and consumption-focused, is linked to materialism, influenced by ...

W.H. Auden — gay, Christian, and one of the greatest poets of the 20th century — from an essay about Christianity and art: As soon, however, as materialism comes to be regarded as sacred truth, the ...

Materialism has become synonymous with consumerism – wasteful, debt-fuelled and ultimately unsatisfying. But what if we’ve not been looking in the wrong place for happiness, and we’ve just got the ...

Materialism is associated with depression, anxiety and broken relationships. It is socially destructive and self-destructive Add as a preferred source on Google That they are crass, brash and trashy ...

“One of the most common of current phrases is that of having a good time, and too generally it is employed as an excuse for some gross evasion of duty, some ignoble yielding to a shameful egotism, ...

Be “a man in the street and a Jew in the home”: a common piece of advice that liberal Jews often gave their co-religionists in the 19th century. If Jewishness was kept invisible and private, they ...

Necessity is the mother of invention. The economic travails of millennials could herald the era of late materialism. Fewer than a third of millennials own their own home compared to more than half of ...