Thursday, August 31, 2017

The End of White Male Privilege

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You know the old adage about a stopped clock being right twice a day? The same is true of Donald Trump. Occasionally, usually by accident, e...
Tuesday, August 29, 2017

Civil War History Can Be Factual, but Fluid

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Because memory is imperfect, because traditions and stories are often altered as they are passed down from generation to generation, because...
Saturday, August 26, 2017

What Could Happen While You Were Totally Off The Grid For A Few Hours?

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Think about what touches us every day?Certainly technology in many forms and soon artificial intelligence. We are touched by our consumption...
Thursday, August 24, 2017

Attica 1971: What Lessons Have We Learned?

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Certainly with respect to history, it too often seems like everything old is new again. Think about it: Racial conflict, mass incarceration,...
Wednesday, August 23, 2017

Natasha - A New Film from Director David Bizmozgis

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Everyday Russia is in the news. After being off of our collective radar for so long, suddenly it's a national obsession. Sure, a lot o...
Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Liberal Arts Education Should Matter Now, More Than Ever

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If you do a Google search about STEM education,(science technology engineering and math,) you come up with over 69 million entries. It has b...
Sunday, August 20, 2017

The Chickenshit Club: Or Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives.

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Years ago you may remember that the Presidential candidate and former US Senator John Edwards spoke of two Americas. One poor and one rich a...
Monday, August 14, 2017

China's Stranglehold on Our Technology

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Most of you woke up this morning hearing bellicose talk about the possibility of a trade war with China. What we don’t hear is that virtua...
Saturday, August 5, 2017

Why Are We Looking Back at Vietnam?

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Coming up next month, Ken Burns’ powerful documentary about the Vietnam war will be in living rooms across America. It makes you wonder why...
Friday, July 28, 2017

Is the American Experiment in Self Government at an End

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There was the belief at the end of the Cold War, and the fall of the Soviet Union, that the West had triumphed. That liberal democracy, that...
Wednesday, July 26, 2017

Seduced By The Road or Why Boys Like Big Trucks?

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It is estimated that there are about 3.5 million truck drivers in the U.S.  Yet most of us know very little about the business, the culture,...
Monday, July 24, 2017

Slowing Down to Be Human in the Digital Age

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Perhaps never before in human history has so much change so rapidly been foisted on human beings. Sure change is a constant and whether it ...
Saturday, July 22, 2017

THE DARKENING WEB: The War for Cyberspace

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Companies being hacked. Nations and democracy being hacked. Privacy under siege. The internet was supposed to change the world, create more...
Tuesday, July 18, 2017

Parenting in the Age of Trump

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Recently a candidate for Congress beat up a reporter on the night before the election, and he still won. The echoes of the Access Hollywood...
Thursday, July 13, 2017

To Have and To Have Not

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In the movie, Wall Street , Oliver Stone, through his character Darien Taylor, played by Daryl Hannah, reminds us that “when you've h...
Wednesday, July 5, 2017

Ronald Reagan and Blue-Collar Conservatism

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The current Congressional debate about health care, is more than just a policy debate. It it is a kind of tabula rasa for defining the vario...
Sunday, July 2, 2017

After your kid gets into college, how will he/she come out?

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Like most of us, I’ve just spent the past few months listening to parents agonize about their their high school graduates and where they wer...
Thursday, June 29, 2017

Happy 10th Anniversary

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The Economist recently said about the iPhone, that “no product in recent history has changed people's lives more . Without the iPhone, r...
Monday, June 26, 2017

Why 1967 Still Matters

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It is indeed a very tired cliche, with apologies to Kierkegaard, to say that “life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived fo...
Friday, June 23, 2017

The 70% Of The Planet That We Overlook.

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When most of us look at a globe or map of the world, our eyes are drawn to some combination of the 196 countries that make up that world. Ev...