Sunday, November 10, 2013

You're Fired !

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In the private sector, when corporations get into trouble they replace the CEO. When sports teams repeatedly have a losing season, invariab...

The resilience of the human spirit

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Woody Allen, in Annie Hall , said that he felt that life was divided into the horrible and the miserable. The horrible he thought were term...
Saturday, November 9, 2013

# Tweet Tweet

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For years people have referred to Hollywood, as being like High school with money. Well, Hollywood has matured a lot. But today the same ...
Thursday, November 7, 2013

The Psychopath Inside

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Even if you are not a football fan, you’ve all seen the diagrams of plays with all those X’s and O’s. It makes you think, and even sometim...
Tuesday, November 5, 2013

One family's life defines the 20th Century

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When we look at the emergence of the diaspora of any ethnic group, we realize how important immigration is. To the Jews of the 20th century ...
Monday, November 4, 2013

What it means to be human

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We know that genes help make us who and what we are. But, of the 25,000 genes we possess, a relatively few are significantly different from ...
Sunday, November 3, 2013

Nine Economic Policy Disasters and What We Can Learn from Them

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Imagine if decisions in Washington, or at any level of government for that matter, were really made on the basis of policy. If careful anal...
Saturday, November 2, 2013

A beacon of democracy or an apartheid state?

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If I said that this conversation was about authoritarian politics, the religious right, a demographic crisis facing one political party, and...
Thursday, October 31, 2013

The Everything Store

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We all know, or have heard about life in Silicon Valley. The perks, the collegiality, the PowerPoint, the team ethos. In fact, perhaps the...
Wednesday, October 30, 2013

New York as a metaphor for America in the 50's

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Mark Helprin , whose novels include Winter's Tale , A Soldier of the Great War and Freddy and Fredericka , is a senior fellow at the Cl...

Minerva Schools at KGI

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Higher education, like so much else in education is beginning to change. While the American higher education system is the envy of the word...
Monday, October 28, 2013

"A riddle wrapped in an enigma, inside of a mystery."

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Back in the days of the former Soviet Union, we use to look to any public clue to try and understand what went on behind those Kremlin walls...
Saturday, October 26, 2013

The panic, pleasure and history of CANDY, in one bite

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This week marks the official start of candy season. The bags of Halloween candy, followed by chocolate turkeys, chocolate gifts,  the Chanu...
Friday, October 25, 2013

Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House

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At the Harvard Business School, which George W. Bush attended, there are many case studies about business partnerships. One of the recurrin...

Occupy Wall Street...two years later

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The "one percent," "occupy," "income inequality," all are ideas and phrases that have become part of our natio...
Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Where They Were From

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Usually when we all have conversations about race and poverty, it's usually in a very abstract way. We often loose sight of how these re...
Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Palling around with Bill Ayers

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During the government shut down, many commented that the radical elements of the Republican party were acting like terrorists. Even if we mi...
Saturday, October 19, 2013

League of Denial

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We worry about too big to fail. Yet bank losses pale in comparison to the degree to which the National Football League, has ...