Thursday, April 28, 2016

One Upon A Time, Clean Air and Clean Water Were A Bipartisan Desire

›
There is seemingly nothing in our society today that has not become politicized. From what bathrooms we use to the soda we drink, to the foo...
Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Is American Unity Still Possible?

›
American history shows us that amidst election season we are often divided. That partisan rancor is often high and it is a healthy part of ...
Friday, April 22, 2016

Girls & Sex

›
As they have done in so many other areas, the millennial generation has picked and chosen which parts of their social and sexual legacy they...
Tuesday, April 19, 2016

The House That Jack Buiit

›
If I gave you all a quiz and asked you to name five tech visionaries and entrepreneurs in the US, you’d all pass. If I asked you to name ev...
Sunday, April 17, 2016

When Revolutionary Violence Was Commonplace

›
It’s funny how history often pokes its head out in the framework of contemporary events. Remember during the government shutdown a few year...
Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Liberty vs. The Common Good

›
The debate that raged between Apple and the Federal Government was on the surface about security, privacy and encryption. However, in a lar...
Friday, April 8, 2016

How enlightenment remakes us

›
For most of us, the pressures of daily life in the 21st Century are intense. Emails, calls, social media, commutes, ever changing technolog...
Tuesday, April 5, 2016

We know more and understand less than every before

›
T.S. Eliot wrote, in 1934. “Where is the life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge ...
Saturday, April 2, 2016

What's The Matter With Democrats?

›
When we examine the roots of today’s chaos in the Republican party, we see that much of it has been caused by the party using and manipulati...
Monday, March 28, 2016

Anne Garrels' reports from Putin Country

›
A popular desire for authoritarian rule in the face of a changing and sometimes shaky economy. A overheated sense of nationalism, to cover u...
Friday, March 25, 2016

The Industries of the Future

›
Just for fun, pull out or get a copy of the originally published version of the best seller What Color Is Your Parachute. Originally publis...
Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Can We Thrive At Midlife?

›
We've all heard it before. Sixty is the new fifty, fifty is the new forty, etc. It's all in the service our fear, or dread of agin...
Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Andy Grove R.I.P. - Our conversation from 1996

›
Andy Grove, perhaps more than anyone other than Steve Jobs transformed technology, drove the growth of Silicon Valley and shaped the views o...
Monday, March 21, 2016

The Math Myth

›
If we examine why so many students don’t graduate High School, we find that failure to succeed at High School math is often at the core of t...
Saturday, March 19, 2016

Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic

›
For years we’ve had just one image of the drug wars. Images conjured up from movies like the Godfather or Scarface, or reading about LA bat...
Wednesday, March 16, 2016

Not Even Strip Clubs Are Not Safe From Corporate Homogenization

›
The power and reach of corporate America has become a staple of our political dialogue. Consolidation and corporatization has touched almos...
Tuesday, March 15, 2016

How Digital Memory May Change What Makes Us Human

›
Back in 320 BC Socrates worried about how written language would impact our ability to remember. This was long, long before moveable type, t...
Monday, March 14, 2016

Making Sense of the Meaning of Life

›
In this age of consumerism, instant gratification and information, it’s often hard to think about something as abstract as the “meaning of...
Sunday, March 13, 2016

Obama and the Black Community - Seven Years Later

›
Last week Elizabeth Warren gave a scathing speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate, about the seven year efforts, on the part of Republicans...
Thursday, March 10, 2016

The Story of Globalization Through Ten Extraordinary Lives

›
Today, globalization faces a crisis of its own success. The international movement of goods, money, communications and ideas has been going...