Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Why Forty States Don't Matter

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When Richard Nixon ran for President in 1960, he vowed to visit and campaign in all 50 States. The strain of that effort, particularly in a...
Saturday, December 26, 2015

A spotlight on child abuse at the Horace Mann School

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No matter how many times we hear the stories of pedophile priests in the Catholic Church, it’s hard to grasp that such things could go on, ...
Monday, December 21, 2015

Have we Mainstreamed Islamaphobia?

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The world has changed in many ways since 9/11. One of those clearly has been the way we look upon Muslims, South Asians and Sikhs. Arguabl...
Monday, December 14, 2015

Why is the technology to simplify our lives, so complicated?

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We’ve been told for years that one of the key goals of technology was to simplify our life. In fact, for many people the opposite has happe...
Friday, December 11, 2015

A great many children left behind

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There is a school of thought in crisis management that says, if you have a completely intractable problem, sometimes the only solution is to...
Tuesday, December 8, 2015

A Triumph of Temperament and Manners

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When Oliver Wendell Holmes talked about Roosevelt's first class temperament, he never explained why that was important. It didn’t expl...
Saturday, December 5, 2015

Sinatra at 100

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To say that music and pop stars today are transitory is an understatement. Very few performers today are building careers for the ages, as ...
Wednesday, December 2, 2015

How's Your Faith?

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In these highly polarized times, we all hear the admonition, especially around holidays and family get-togethers, to make sure you never dis...
Tuesday, December 1, 2015

Out of Africa

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Even long before the current extreme stratification of America, we heard about two Americas. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Michael Harrington an...
Sunday, November 29, 2015

Dispatches from the Front Lines of Climate Justice

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We have seen that in almost any area of public endeavor, changing the status quo is almost impossible. The combination of entrenched spec...
Friday, November 27, 2015

China's Lust for Bordeaux and the Threat to the World's Wines

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One of the guiding beliefs in foreign affairs is that no two countries that were actively engaged as successful trading partners, ever went ...
Friday, November 20, 2015

Why Lincoln would be appalled by today's income inequality

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How many of the candidates that are running for President today, have the depth of character and ideas that, if they were to be elected, we ...
Tuesday, November 17, 2015

How Art Shapes our Nature

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We live in this world usually someplace between the mundane and the absurd. But regardless of which, it's one that is probably organized...
Friday, November 13, 2015

Witchy Woman - Salem 1692

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We think we know a lot about American history. About the events that shaped the formation of the republic. And while that knowledge might ge...
Monday, November 9, 2015

It would be as if Angelina Jolie had invented Google

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Back in the 1930's and 40's no one had heard of women engineers. Woman were not trying to "have it all," and the Hollywoo...
Friday, November 6, 2015

The Struggle to Create the Federal Reserve

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It used to be, during the dark days of the Cold War, watching the Kremlin and trying to read meaning into every nuance, tea leaf and coming ...
Thursday, November 5, 2015

The Rise and Fall of Urban Economies: Lessons from San Francisco and Los Angeles.

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We’ve seen that different cities often emerge as the the center of their times. This has been true from the Greek city states, through the ...
Thursday, October 29, 2015

Eric Bogosian tells of the plot that avenged the Armenian Genocide

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Everything starts somewhere. Even very bad things. Many of the tremors we face today had their roots in the Ottoman Empire, in the run up...
Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Can the under two hour marathon be accomplished?

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This Sunday over 50,000 people will run in the NYC Marathon. For many participants, part of the appeal is to be part of something larger and...
Friday, October 23, 2015

Is Robin Cook afraid to go to the Hospital?

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Most of us will go into the hospital at some point. When we do, we might be subject to anesthesia, even for a minor procedures. What goes o...