Friday, February 27, 2015

Chuck Todd captures the Catch 22 of the Obama Presidency

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Fifty-five years ago Joseph Heller gave us the paradox of Catch 22. It came to mean a set of contradictory ideas and rules that conflicted ...
Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Can Boomers afford to age with dignity?

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It’s been said that if you live to an old age, you give give up all the things that make you want to live to an old age. At a time when 10,...
Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Filmmaking that truly stands the test of time

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Can you imagine if immediately after 9/11, filmmakers like Scorsese, Spielberg, Coppola, Fincher or Apatow would enlist in the military to m...
Monday, February 23, 2015

Tales from Both Sides of the Brain

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How many times have you heard someone say that they were of two minds on a particular subject? What they were in fact reflecting and acknow...
Friday, February 20, 2015

The Man Who Couldn't Stop......The Man Who Couldn't Stop......

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How many of you have ever left the house, gotten half way to your destination and were convinced that you had left the oven on, or left the ...
Wednesday, February 18, 2015

The Science behind Touch, Pleasure and Pain

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For the ten million or so people that saw Fifty Shades of Grey this past weekend, or the many more millions who read the books, in a way wh...

Lynsey Addario: A Photographer's Life of Love and War

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There is a principle in physics known as the uncertainty principle. the idea simplified is that it’s impossible to observe or measure cert...
Monday, February 16, 2015

Has Italy always been falling apart?

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Back in the early 1960’s, in Fellini’s La Dolce Vita, the world took note of the decadence of life in the Italian capital of Rome. Inspired...

Miranda July

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Short Stories, films, novels and performance art. Over the years we’ve spoken to many guests that do some of these things, and do them at t...

Just how dangerous is Vladimir Putin? Ask Bill Browder!

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We often throw terms around in our political and geopolitical debates like capitalist, and communist, and oligarch, and class divide. But v...
Saturday, February 14, 2015

Marriage today is not your parents marriage...but it just might be your grandparents

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It was Woody Allen who said that “marriage was the end of hope.” We know from the behavior of millennials today that while they strongly fa...
Thursday, February 12, 2015

Is the perfect Battery the holy grail of the electronic age?

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If any one issue has dominated both our international and domestic dialogue, it is the subject of energy. A developed and developing world,...
Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Fear, Hope and Dread

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It is often said that to name something is to understand it. If that’s true, than Scott Stossel has a greater understanding of anxiety than...
Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Is Vietnam the "original sin" of American foreign policy?

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Look around the political and social landscape today. The polarizing debates about who we are, what we stand for as a nation and as a peopl...
Saturday, February 7, 2015

Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America

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Why is it that certain cultural and/or ethnic groups tend to have successes, far in excess of their percentage of the population? Jews, Ind...
Thursday, February 5, 2015

Vidal

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Today we have talking heads and pundits. But back in second half of the 20th century we had writers and public intellectuals, whose ideas, ...
Tuesday, February 3, 2015

The paid dogs of war

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The world is a dangerous place. We no longer have the moral clarity and security of the cold war, or of earlier wars where we knew precisel...
Monday, February 2, 2015

Alexandra Fuller

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It is one of the tragic ironies of the psychoanalytic age that we are attracted to people, particularly our partners, who often turn out to ...