Monday, October 15, 2012

Strom Thurmond's America and today's GOP

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The longest serving US Senator from South Carolina made a career out of what he called “unreconstructed racism.” Arguing in a 1948 presiden...
Monday, October 8, 2012

Progress in a Networked Age

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We are all part of networks. Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram. All bring people together to share news, opinions and life. But in ...
Tuesday, October 2, 2012

What's the Matter with White People?

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Back in 1980 Ronald Reagan rode into office on the strength of what were then called “Reagan Democrats.” Blue collar, less educated, middl...
Friday, September 28, 2012

How Children Succeed

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Why is it that poor children seem to do consistently worse academically than middle class kids? On the other hand, why do some wealthy chil...
Thursday, September 27, 2012

Change you have to believe in.

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Rahm Emanuel, the current Mayor of Chicago and the President's former Chief Of Staff said, during the height of the economic crisis ...
Wednesday, September 26, 2012

The Ethicist

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Each day we are confronted by some kind of ethical dilemma. As life gets more complicated, as technology and speed often exceed our abili...
Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Telegraph Avenue

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Set in 2004, in Berkeley, Michael Chabon's new novel, Telegraph Avenue , his first in five years, gives us characters trying to hold bac...
Thursday, September 20, 2012

The End of Men

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Back in 1966, James Brown first recorded "It's a Man's, Man's World." 1966 was a time of Mad Men , it was the same ...
Wednesday, September 19, 2012

The Twilight War

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If there is any one problem that has run through the center of American foreign policy over the past 30 years, through five successive admin...
Tuesday, September 18, 2012

The FBI's War on Student Radicals and Reagan's Rise to Power

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As we continue to re-litigate the 60’s, it's worth remembering that the FBI’s war on student radicals, particularly at UC Berkley, was...
Monday, September 17, 2012

Why Wall Street Always Wins

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To date, there has not been a single prosecution, much less a serious investigation into the events that brought the US economy to its knees...
Friday, September 14, 2012

Geeks takeover political campaigns

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Technology and creative destruction have impacted every aspect of society; from how and what we buy, to the movies we see, how we listen t...
Wednesday, September 12, 2012

What did we know, and when did we know it?

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For eleven years U.S. foreign policy and even domestic attitudes about our place in the world, have been shaped by the reaction to the event...
Monday, September 10, 2012

Not Working

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Two Hundred and Fifty years ago, Alexis de Tocqueville tried to figure out what made America tick. He traveled the country, talked to peop...
Friday, September 7, 2012

Julia

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Today the Wine Country has become the Hollywood of celebrity chefs. But back in the 50’s there was no cooking channel, and their were no f...
Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Delay, Delay, Delay

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Almost every aspect of lives moves at rapid pace. We struggle to keep up. We’re told we have to keep up or get left behind. That to delay, i...
Thursday, August 30, 2012

Smoke Signals

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The culture wars in America have resulted in a war on women, a war on science and a ridiculous war on drugs. Many of these strains come to...