Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Ken Robinson on Creative Schools

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For years now, Sir Ken Robinson has been tirelessly explaining that conformity in education does not work. That it is the enemy not only o...

How simplicity can thrive in a complex world

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Earlier this month most of you completed your taxes. Probably either you had someone else do it, or you spent hours navigating the complexi...
Monday, April 27, 2015

Our Kids

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Back in 1995, Robert Putnam argued in his bestselling book, Bowling Alone, that civic life in America was declining. That we had reached a ...
Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Why men fight and why we love to watch

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Hundred of years ago if men wanted to settle a personal matter, even a political one, they picked up swords or guns and dueled their way to ...
Monday, April 20, 2015

Congratulations to this year's Pulitzer Prize Winners for Fiction and Non Fiction

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ANTHONY DOERR Too often in the thinking about the politics of war, we lose sight of its crucible. Of what it does, both good and bad fo...
Sunday, April 19, 2015

California's water in all the wrong places

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Those of us in California know all too well what’s its like to be living in the midst of a drought. Gov. Jerry Brown recently put in place ...
Friday, April 17, 2015

Barney Frank

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One of the big things missing in politics today is historical and institutional memory. The sense of collegiality, of institutional respect...
Wednesday, April 15, 2015

The capital of 20th century urbanism

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Sometimes, even the most interesting of subjects are presented to us in more or less predictable or at least accepted ways. It’s rare that ...
Monday, April 13, 2015

We are in the Golden Age of Public Shaming

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There once was a time, back in the 18th and 19th centuries, when public shaming was the norm. The stockades, corporal punishment, torture m...
Monday, April 6, 2015

In Defense of Liberal Education

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The rate of voter participation in America continues to decline. Yes, some of it is our politics today. But another part of it just ...

RoadTrip Nation's ROADMAP

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Everyday we hear and read more about how life is changing. Probably while we were sleeping last night, someone came up with an app that wi...
Friday, April 3, 2015

The real evolution of Steve Jobs

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One of the dangers of our celebrity culture today, is that we tend to look at those who've attained that status, regardless of their fie...
Monday, March 30, 2015

Editing life code

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Conventional wisdom has long held that evolution is something that takes place slowly and over centuries. Concurrently we know that techno...

The Myth of America as a "Christian Nation"

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It was Churchill who reminded us that history is written by the victors. Well this is as true of religious history as it is of military, po...
Thursday, March 26, 2015

Going Clear

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The idea of a new, "modern" religion is a little confusing on its face. Especially one that claims millions of converts each year ...
Monday, March 23, 2015

Boston's other unsolved crime

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Art theft is always a funny thing. The public is usually fascinated by the story, but can seldom feel the kind of empathy with the theft, t...