The world appears to be suffering from a severe case of “Edifice Complex.” One of the last acts of Jesus in his itinerant ministry was the chasing of the moneychangers from the Church (nominally known ...

THINK FOR A MOMENT: What was it that caught your eye the last time you visited an art museum? The building’s pale limestone skin or an outdoor sculpture? The elegant lobby or the paintings on the ...

It's called the edifice complex, and it carries a curse: A high-flying company builds a beautiful new headquarters, then heartbreakingly loses altitude. Some wonder if Apple (AAPL), which is ...

Ever hear of the so-called "edifice complex"? It's adapted from the more famous Oedipus complex, in which sons fall in love with their mothers. In an edifice complex, a person falls in love with a ...

Edifice complex. Two words that describe what some institutions do to prove they are doing something that warrants support, especially of the financial kind: They put up a building or two. Government, ...

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... The Kennedy Center will be closed for renovations in July, and all of Washington’s culture vultures are in a tizzy. Thousands of self-styled ...

At Last! A Fair Shake for Terri Schiavo’s Brother in the New York Times Weekend Short: Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground Remember Egg Prices? A Safe Splashdown Caps a Successful Mission Jacobin ...

President-elect Barack Obama recently put forward a plan for the largest government infrastructure project in a half-century. The idea is to revive the economy and create jobs for America’s unemployed ...