Wednesday, July 27, 2016

From Kabul to the Oval Office

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Daniel Patrick Moynihan is often quoted as saying that “you can have your own opinion, but not your own facts.” This is as true in looking ...
Monday, July 25, 2016

Could Star Wars Help Us Solve The World's Problems?

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It’s no surprise that the influence of western popular culture is everywhere, even in our affairs of state. Remember when Ronald Reagan sp...
Wednesday, July 20, 2016

The War at Home

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Confucius may have said it first, but the oft quoted and repeated phrase, “wherever you go, there you are,” can certainly apply to families ...
Friday, July 15, 2016

Success and Luck

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As a society, we’ve all been brought up to believe deeply in the idea of the self made man. The power of persistence and hard work. The Ho...
Thursday, July 14, 2016

Bobby Kennedy

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For those of us that old enough, when we think back to JFK and Camelot, we think of a time of innocence, of renewal and of possibility. And...
Tuesday, July 12, 2016

White Trash: A History

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While politicians often talk of all those things that unite us as Americans, there are equally powerful forces that divide us. At the cente...
Wednesday, July 6, 2016

Carl Douglas talks OJ: Made in America

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If you've seen the ESPN Documentary OJ: Made in America , you know it's about a lot more than OJ Simpson, or the Brown Simpson-Gold...
Saturday, July 2, 2016

Campaign 1776 - The War That We Almost Lost

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On this day, upon which we celebrate the birth of the “American Experiment,” it’s important to remember that it was not preordained. In sp...
Tuesday, June 28, 2016

Life and Death in Palestine

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One of the things we have been hearing lately, with respect to our own domestic politics,is the debate between conscience and politics. Some...
Monday, June 27, 2016

Love Wins

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Oliver Brown, the lead plaintiff in Brown v. the Board of Education was a parent of a child denied access to a Topeka Kansas School. Clarenc...
Thursday, June 23, 2016

Who Started the War On Government?

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In 1953 in his first Inaugural Address, Dwight Eisenhower talked about the positive impacts of government. Thirty years later Ronald Reagan ...
Friday, June 17, 2016

The Future is Inevitable

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If there is one overriding meme today it’s about fear. Fear of change, fear of a shrinking world, fear of the impact of technology; in shor...
Wednesday, June 15, 2016

Before the Play, There Was the Book

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Before Lin-Manuel Miranda, before the Play there was the book.  Miranda has talked about how his inspiration was Ron Chernow 's 2004 boo...
Monday, June 13, 2016

GRIT

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We are a nation that believes deeply in the Horatio Alger story of hard work and pulling oneself up by their bootstraps. In political terms...
Friday, June 10, 2016

What Really Helps Children Succeed?

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We know that children living in poverty generally tend to do worse academically than middle class kids. We also know that even some kids fr...
Tuesday, June 7, 2016

The Tribal Bonds of Soldiers

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“We hear of of war and the rumor of war.” We thank our soldiers for their service and we think that we are welcoming them back into society...
Monday, June 6, 2016

The end of humans

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If anything represents the new new thing in our technological age, it's the arena of artificial intelligence. From the factory floor to...
Wednesday, June 1, 2016

How to deal with conflict all around us

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Look around us. Conflict is everywhere. In our culture, certainly in our politics, in the broader world and in our interactions with institu...
Saturday, May 28, 2016

Finance vs. American Business

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Recently I had a conversation with a Professor at UC Berkeley about the subject of Power. In the course of the conversation he referred to ...
Thursday, May 26, 2016

Power...it’s not what it used to be.

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Whether we want to believe it or not, every relationship we have...with a friend, a spouse, a child or co-workers, has a power dynamic as a ...