Friday, June 14, 2013

An Inner History of the New America

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Packer deconstructs the past thirty years of "progress" in America and in so doing brilliantly gives narrative drive to the chang...
Thursday, June 13, 2013

Farm to Health

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We see demographic statistics that in the next 20 years more than 65% of the world will live in cities. We seem to be moving further and fu...
Wednesday, June 12, 2013

The First Conservative

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Conservatism was once a great political idea. However, in the US today, it bears little resemblance to its roots. Edmund Burke, often re...
Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Mexico's Descent into Darkness

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As is the case with most of our political debates in this country, we never seem to understand context. As immigration reform is once again...
Monday, June 10, 2013

Why is Thinking Clearly so difficult?

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TS Eliot wrote, in 1934, “Where is the life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we...

The Imperial Presidency

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As Harvard law professor Jack Goldsmith states at the outset of his new book, “war and emergency invariably shift power to the Presidency. ...
Thursday, June 6, 2013

The Education of Samantha Power

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Samantha Power is brilliant and President Obama’s pick to be the newest member of his cabinet and our new United Nations Ambassador. Her vi...

Back to the Future

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Imagine the world of today's high technology, but instead of sleek Apple like design, it is all powered by steam, driven by gears and it...

Big, Hot, Cheap and Right

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Throughout the history of America, and its federalist system, different states have personified, both politically and economically, the etho...
Wednesday, June 5, 2013

The Autistic Brain

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We are creatures of exploration. Today with so much information available to us, and travel so easy, we might be like Alexander the Great wi...
Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Is Mass Extinction Possible?

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When we think about the future, and the vast array of dangers that we face as a society and a species, how big do we think? Is our future m...
Sunday, June 2, 2013

Bad Boy

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Eric Fischl is one of America's most celebrated and accomplished artists. At a time in the 80’s when painting was de...
Friday, May 31, 2013

"Priest, Author, Scholar, Scold." RIP

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The New York Times in their obituary called him a "Priest, Author, Scholar, Scold." Andrew Greeley was all of these. “A Roman Cat...
Thursday, May 30, 2013

Dan Savage on Faith, Sex, Love, and Politics

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Few controversial issues in contemporary American life have seen the kind of rapid sea change in public opinion that we’ve witnessed on the ...
Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Confessions of a Sociopath

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Imagine if you could say things and interact with people unrestricted by conscience. If you had an unfettered capacity for risk, engaged ...

How the Green Generation came of age

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Even amidst all of the domestic and international policy issues that come and go with each administration, perhaps the one that has the grea...