When my colleagues and I first started studying humility more than a decade ago, I didn’t really think it would amount to much. It struck me as a relatively uninteresting virtue – if even a virtue at ...

Humility is widely under-rated in most Western cultures, it seems to me. It’s also widely misunderstood — maybe that’s why it’s underrated. Our popular media culture is saturated with themes of ...

“[O]ur picture of ourselves has become too grand,” Iris Murdoch lamented in 1997. “We have lost the vision of a reality separate from ourselves.” Today, humility is considered a vice in many corners ...