Wednesday, November 30, 2011

The Strike that Changed America

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In this time of renewed labor unrest, particularly in the public sector, it's worth looking back at the most momentous public sector str...
Monday, November 28, 2011

William F. Buckley

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As Republican candidates move around the country trying define their conservative credentials, it's worth noting, as perhaps they should...
Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Unbecoming British

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While the American Revolution was primarily about political independence, there were a core of individuals who wanted the United States to g...
Monday, November 21, 2011

The Unmaking of Israel

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Over the past several years millions of words have been written and spoken about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Rarely in history has a c...
Friday, November 18, 2011

A Fool and his lies....

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"To thine own self be true" Shakespeare tells us. Little did he know that in calling for this, he was going up against centuries o...
Thursday, November 17, 2011

This years National Book Award winner

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There is a reason that Hurricane Katrina still resonates with us. Not just because of the magnitude of the catastrophe, but because it signa...
Monday, November 14, 2011

How did conservatism get from Edmund Burke to Sara Palin?

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What is conservatism and does today's conservatism bear any resemblecne to it's European roots? Why does conservatism today seem so ...
Thursday, November 10, 2011

A Life in the Dark

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A decade after her death, Pauline Kael still remains the most important figure in film criticism today. In her view the critic "was th...
Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Portrait of a School Shooter

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Columbine, Virginia Tech, Northern Illinois University, Cleveland High School. They all conjure up painful images of boys gone bad. We’ve a...
Monday, November 7, 2011

This year in Jerusalem

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Jerusalem is not just a city, it is a state of mind. It represents an almost metropolitan version of the three-thousand year story of weste...
Thursday, November 3, 2011

Why we still like Ike

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We've spent some time lately talking about the 70's. Today we go back even further. When once asked about the impact of the French ...
Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Getting Down in Seventies New York

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In 1975 a now famous headline in the NY Daily News read, " Ford to NY, drop dead ." Perhaps that was really the beginning of the c...

Ron Nessen, Gerald Ford's Press Secretary looks back

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For fifteen years, Ron Nessen enjoyed an extraordinary career covering the major national and international events of the ...
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 ...