Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Ted Kennedy's True Compass.

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Like so much in the Kennedy legacy, it was left to Teddy to tell the family history.  He does so by telling us his story, by showing us his ...
Tuesday, September 29, 2009

The lessons of history....

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The "it" book of this week takes us inside the decisions, made by the Best and the Brightest, in the 1960s and 70s, to escalate th...
Monday, September 28, 2009

We are all Keynesians now

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"We are all Keynesians now" is a now-famous phrase coined by Milton Friedman and attributed to Richard Nixon. It is popularly asso...
Friday, September 25, 2009

Higher Education under siege

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Public Higher education is under siege. Just as private colleges and universities have had to deal with their shrinking endowments, public...

The Case for compassion

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Renowned religion historian Karen Armstrong , in her new book  The Case for God argues that our religious thinking is surprisingly less sop...
Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Justice

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Every day we move further away from being a thoughtful society.  We have lost our sense of the responsibilities of citizenship.  In our soun...
Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Higher Education under siege

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Public Higher education is under siege. Just as private colleges and universities have had to deal with their shrinking endowment, public u...

Is the Security Council Relevant?

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For over 60 years the Untied Nations has tried to play to role in the peace and security of the world. The UN Security Council and its five...
Monday, September 21, 2009

Today's must read

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Today's must read comes from Matt Bai in Sunday's N.Y. Times Magazine .  A realistic appraisal of what government can and can't ...
Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Terrorism: How to Respond

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Do we need a radically new approach to dealing with the international terrorist threat? Richard English , a Professor of Politics at Queen...

Why can't America learn?

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If our inability to learn from the other health care systems in the western world were not enough to sadden us, as T.R. Reid explains in the...
Monday, September 14, 2009

Sick around the world

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The US claims 37th place in the World Health Organization's rankings of the world's health systems and 15th out of 19 in the Commonw...

Must reads

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A couple of new must reads: 1)  Ron Brownstein has the final world on the Bush Legacy .  It's not one Republicans be be proud of. 2) An...
Friday, September 11, 2009

If you're a fan

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As much as we think today's technology is changing everything, between the mid 70's and the mid '80 a series of companies were b...
Thursday, September 10, 2009

Here O Israel

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Israel is changing. Two interviews this week shed light on the changing face of Israel both in country and in the the US Congress. First R...
Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Capitalims 101

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Capitalism is, to paraphrase Winston Churchill, a  bad system, expect for all the rest.  It's taken a beating lately, but in spite of th...

Today's one must read

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Today's one hot must read. Bill Clinton talks with Esquire about politics then and now.
Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Tom Ridge and the TEST OF OUR TIMES

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The reality of government is that it is never as good as we'd like it to be, or as bad as we usually think it is. This is abundantly cle...
Friday, September 4, 2009

Cuba and Bacardi

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Every once in a while a family, a place and a cause come together to create a perfect storm that inexorably links there collective fate. Suc...
Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Today's must reads

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The latest must reads: 1) Fun with photoshop. Can we ever trust our eyes? 2) Another area of technology where the US lags way behind....