Monday, October 31, 2011

The Viral Storm

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At no time in human history have we been better at fighting disease. Yet modern life has also made us so much more vulnerable to the threat ...
Friday, October 28, 2011

Next time you use your credit card online.......

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The benefits of living in a digital, globalized society are enormous; so too are the dangers. Governments and the private sector are losing ...
Thursday, October 27, 2011

Our not so great socieity.

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Many have spoken of the structural problems we face in our economy and in our democracy. Individually, our broken financial system, the powe...
Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Karachi: Instant City

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With the rapid 21st Century growth of globalization, we've witnessed one of the great migrations of history. Millions of people have mo...
Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Can we keep our Republic?

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We all seem to agree that our political system, in fact our democracy, is broken. But what does that mean? How did this happen, what's ...
Monday, October 24, 2011

Violence really is diminishing

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The seemingly endless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, might make us believe we live in the most violent age ever. But Stev...
Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Change your mind, change the world

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Yeats wrote of a time when "the best lacked all conviction, while the worst were full of passionate intensity." He might have bee...
Monday, October 17, 2011

Michigan comes back...

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When our founders set up a federal system, one of their goals was to allow the States to be laboratories of policy, to find what worked and ...
Thursday, October 13, 2011

Forget what you think you know about Jonestown

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Occasionally there are events, that even 33 years latter, we remember as if they were yesterday. When this happens, its usually because of ...
Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Ariel Dorfman speaks of Revolution, Hope and Reconciliation

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We all view the world from our own personal experience. For most of us that means we understand September 11th to mean one particular thing...
Monday, October 10, 2011

She could have been a heartbeat from the Presidency

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In 1968 a 26 year old reporter by the name of Joe McGinniss wrote a book that took us inside the Nixon campaign and in so doing, redefined...
Thursday, October 6, 2011

That Used To Be US

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Some say that America's best days are behind it. That Americans have become to resistant to change, that the ethos of personal sacrific...
Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Science and what is really true.

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Today, more than ever, we seem to have lost our appreciation for science, for reality, for facts. It should be no surprise, since from our e...
Tuesday, October 4, 2011

The Trials of Amanda Knox

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When you take a twenty year old American student, living alone in Italy; add in her Italian boyfriend, a brutal, sexually charged murder and...
Friday, September 30, 2011

Remembering the Music, Forgetting the Words

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In an age of memoir, blogs and Facebook, where we seemingly have the compulsion to document every aspect of our lives, perhaps it's impo...
Thursday, September 29, 2011

This is real infrastructure improvement

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Joan Didion once referred to the freeways as the only secular communion that what we have. Certainly the freeway, more specifically our Inte...
Tuesday, September 27, 2011

The 9/11 Oral History Project

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A couple of weeks ago we marked the events of 9/11. But what were we really marking? What did we celebrate? More than the physical landsc...