His premise is that humans grow the way a garden grows, with periods of blooming, budding, stuntedness or renewal, and that the way leaders support employees and bring out their best is analogous ...

Malnutrition has also been described as a clog in the wheel of raising a healthy population of children, who grow into teenagers and adults with a low weight-for-height – or stuntedness.

These examples of incapacity are very different from what Douthat describes: Donald Trump’s mental stuntedness, emotional instability, and moral decrepitude. Douthat acknowledges that he is ...

Katie broke my heart because it's such a sign of her stuntedness, and I think we all have those parts of us, those childlike ...