Tuesday, May 26, 2015

One Nation Under God...and Corporation

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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...
Sunday, May 24, 2015

The Brain and the Gut...together again

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We all remember the youthful spiritual song Dem Bones, about the ankle bone being connected to the shin bone, the thigh bone being connected...
Thursday, May 21, 2015

Can a Well-Tuned Brain keep up with the modern world?

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Everyday it seem the world speeds up. The advances of technology, the need to make faster decisions, multitasking and a sometimes dizzyin...
Sunday, May 17, 2015

There once was a time in Washington when negotiation and compromise were not dirty words

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In talking to someone recently about my guest, former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell , they went into a bit of tirade of criticism o...
Friday, May 15, 2015

Project Based Learning for the Military and Business

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It has often been conventional wisdom that the military is always fighting current wars, based on lessons learned from the last war. That’s...
Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Why Peter Pan is the model of our Infantile Age

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We are a culture obsessed with youth. We are told that youth is wasted on the young, but we do everything in our power to stay young. Gro...
Sunday, May 10, 2015

Every generation has its own disease that moves from doomed to hopeful

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It sometimes seem that every generation has its disease. In earlier generations it was Tuberculosis, in the 40’s and 50’s the fear and the ...
Wednesday, May 6, 2015

A Philosophy of Happiness

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Someone once wrote that happiness is serious business. But should happiness be a goal in and of itself, or is it simply a construct for achi...
Monday, May 4, 2015

Why we are all stronger in broken places

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Nietzsche said “that which doesn't kill us, makes us stronger.” Little did anyone know at the time that those words have a powerful psy...
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...