Thursday, July 31, 2014

Parenting 101 - Lead with Acceptance

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Every generation of parents wants their children to do better than themselves. It seems though that to accomplish that today, as NY Times c...
Wednesday, July 30, 2014

How good intentions created the student loan crisis

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The student loan crisis has reached epic proportions. Beyond the basic fact that it could be the next financial cries, with debt exceeding o...
Monday, July 28, 2014

Reducing Inequality in the 21st Century

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Suddenly talk of income equality and poverty has become more acceptable. Perhaps it’s the political season, or Thomas Pikitty’s book, or ...
Sunday, July 27, 2014

Good...Evil...Indifferent

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It has been argued that more evil is committed in the name of banality, than purpose. Certainly a look at our current golden age of televis...
Thursday, July 24, 2014

Do Fathers Matter?

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When Hanna Rosin wrote The End of Men , did it also portend the end of fatherhood? There is no question that gender roles have been dramati...
Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Do we have more A*holes today?

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Everyday we encounter jerks. Some have recently argued that the number of jerks has increased exponentially, as we all experience greater s...
Monday, July 21, 2014

The Vacationers

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It’s long been said that if you really want to get to know someone, travel with them. The corollary is that if you really want to get to kn...
Sunday, July 20, 2014

Why not good seafood at a good price?

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America has more ocean and more coastline than any other nation. We produce more fresh seafood than other nations. Yet the amount of seafoo...
Thursday, July 17, 2014

How Millennials are changing the Middle East

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Technology is transforming the world. But so too are millions of young people throughout the Middle East, whose attitudes, desire for freed...
Wednesday, July 16, 2014

The Lives and Faces of the World's Poor

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Living in the West, it's easy to forget that one-sixth of the world's population subsists without sustainable sources of food, medic...
Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Is there any hope for the US / Iranian relationship?

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Few nations have as long a history of uninterrupted conflict and misunderstanding as the United States and Iran. The markers along that roa...
Monday, July 14, 2014

The real Chinese American experience

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Several trends are shaping the world today. One is immigration and migration. The mass movement of peoples from rural to urban area and ac...

The beginning of an era and the end of innocence

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For ten days in March 1971, the Rolling Stones traveled by train and bus to play two shows a night in many of the small theaters and town ha...
Sunday, July 13, 2014

Where's the beef?

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To paraphrase Shakespeare, that fault is not in our food, but in choices we make. Specifically about what we eat, where it comes from and th...
Friday, July 11, 2014

How the immigrant feels

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Immigration seems the issue on everyone's mind today. Yet with all the thinking and all the talking, we forget half the story. It’s no...
Thursday, July 10, 2014

A Spymaster's Story

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It’s easy to forget that long before the intelligence failures of 9/11, the misinformation about Iraq's WMDs and what has become almost ...
Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Dead laws and broken government

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We all know that our system of government is broken. Mostly we attribute it to bickering and bitter partisanship. But also, in part, it’s ...
Monday, July 7, 2014

Why John Wayne matters

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Back in the last 1960’s there was a very famous ad campaign that asked, What Becomes a Legend Most? In fact, the real answer to that questi...