Wednesday, August 31, 2016

"What Does Home Mean To You?"

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When the national conversation does turn to real economic issues, it’s usually about numbers. Growth, GDP, home ownership and of course, the...
Monday, August 29, 2016

Hillbilly Elegy

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Amidst all the talk of the things that divide america, Race and Class always rise to the top. Over the years there have been many efforts t...
Friday, August 26, 2016

Parents should be Gardeners and not Carpenters

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For those of us that are parents, or grandparents, we are told over and over that parenting is the most important job we will ever have. ...
Wednesday, August 24, 2016

How Did Our Politics Get So Harsh? The 1968 Election and the Politics of Division

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One of the great benefits of a long history is that when things get tough in America, we can look back to see how we as a people and as a na...
Wednesday, August 17, 2016

"Stoking the Star-Maker Machinery"

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Hollywood has always served a dual role, as both a reflection of the times is operates in and a projector sending out its light showing the...
Tuesday, August 16, 2016

Back to School

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People used to joke that the one subject that everybody talked about was the weather. Today, it may very well be that the subject is educat...
Wednesday, August 10, 2016

An American Heiress in a Time Far More Violent Than Our Own

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There are many defining markers of particular eras in American history. One of them is notorious crimes. Think about it. Sacco and Vanze...
Friday, August 5, 2016

Why Streisand Still Matters

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Pick up any celebrity magazine in any grocery store line and the people gracing the cover were almost certainly unknown five years ago and m...
Thursday, August 4, 2016

How the World is Getting Faster, Faster

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We throw around words and ideas about technology, about disruption, about progress and the impact of technology in speeding up our lives. ...
Tuesday, August 2, 2016

Why the nuclear codes still really matter

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In this time of asymmetrical warfare, terrorism, and the war images that have been projected into our living rooms since Vietnam, it's e...
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...