Love can involve challenges, choices, and chance, as exemplified in the podcast Modern Love, which invites you to "fall in love at first listen." The podcast is produced by WBUR ("Boston's NPR News Station") and based on the New York Times column of the same name, which readers can find linked to on the About page. Modern Love is hosted by Meghna Chakrabarti, who introduces essays read by actors,...

Irving Singer has been publishing on the topic of love and sexuality in Western culture since the 1950s. This course is an expression of his decades of research and thinking, and it is available for free from MIT Open Courseware. Readers may peruse the topics of the course readings and even purchase the books if so desired, which include tracts by Friedrich Nietzsche, George Bernard Shaw, and four...