Thursday, June 20, 2019

War Today: We Pay and They Serve

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Once upon a time war had structure. There was a kind of narrative arc to war. A beginning, a middle and clear end. In the modern era, certa...
Monday, June 17, 2019

Cities Represent the Ultimate Achievement of Mankind

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Today, more than one-half of the world's population lives in cities. In every corner of the world, people are moving to cities at a rapi...
Tuesday, June 4, 2019

Saving Capitalism

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Never before in human history has so much change been so rapidly foisted on human beings. Not during the Renaissance, the Enlightenment or t...
Monday, May 27, 2019

Imagine If We All Could Have Esther Wojcicki As A Parent

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The evidence is overwhelming that in our schools today, the successful curriculums are those that are directed toward deeper learning, proje...
Thursday, May 23, 2019

We Are Not Descended From Fearful Men: David Maraniss and "A Good American Family"

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Mark Twain is reported to have said that history does not really repeat itself, but it often rhymes. Today we live in a climate, not unlike...
Tuesday, May 21, 2019

A Multi-Cultural Society, An Elite Senate, Good and Bad Leaders: How It All Went So Wrong

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Today as we sometimes contemplate the real possibility of the end of the American experience. We think about its roughly 250-year history, o...
Wednesday, May 8, 2019

Democracies Are Not Forever...Is The US Headed Down The Same Path As Rome?

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Every day, no matter what the issue — whether it’s election integrity, rule of law, climate change, guns, impeachment, or the Mueller report...
Monday, May 6, 2019

Outright Lies Are Posing As Today's Conspiracy Theories

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Long before the Internet, in the early days of talk radio, the all-night hosts were the progenitors of modern-day conspiracy theory. Hosts ...
Thursday, May 2, 2019

The Klan and White Supremacy...Then and Now

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Even though it may not seem like it, domestic terrorism, particularly built around white supremacy, is nothing new. Given that racism is ou...
Wednesday, May 1, 2019

We'll Be OK If We Can Make It to 2040

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America has often been a divided nation. Battles at our founding were often settled at 50 paces.The western ethos that is part of half of Am...
Monday, April 29, 2019

If Democracy Requires Critical Thinking, Are We Doomed?

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Ukraine just elected a comedian as its president. A reality TV character holds the most powerful office on the planet. Talk show hosts are d...
Monday, April 22, 2019

According to the World Health Organization, Superbugs are a Greater Health Threat Than Climate Change

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Sometimes the personal is professional. It’s not all that common when our work and our survival is linked inexorably together. They are, in ...
Wednesday, April 17, 2019

The Remembered Past vs. The Real Past

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Old songs, like old memories, are the purveyors of a kind of double imagery. Triggers of thought that somehow short circuit time and make ...
Wednesday, April 10, 2019

Why Coders Matter and Why They Control Our Future

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Think of the millions of hours we spend thinking and talking about technology. About the future, what it all means, and how it impacts us. ...
Saturday, March 30, 2019

Who We Connect With Impacts Who We Become, and Who We Become Impacts Who We Connect With

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Several years ago, the tech company Cisco ran an ad campaign talking about the “human network.” It tried to humanize their networking produ...

The Brave New World of Immunotherapy

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It’s hard to believe today, but leaching was once considered a legitimate and effective medical practice. Years from now, we may look back u...
Thursday, March 28, 2019

Should We Negotiate With Hostage Takers?

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In a world that is increasingly more authoritarian, in a political atmosphere that is more and more polarized and tribal everywhere, the thr...
Monday, March 25, 2019

Brave, Not Perfect

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A couple of years ago, Senator Elizabeth Warren made headlines with the phrase “nevertheless she persisted.” Sheryl Sandberg told women they...
Thursday, March 21, 2019

How Our Lives Are Being Run By Algorithms: From the 737 to Our Daily Commute

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When Hal asked Astronaut David Bowman to “open the pod bay doors,” it was as if our most primal fear of machines came rushing headlong into ...
Monday, March 11, 2019

Facebook and Zuckerberg Not Only Screwed Up Reality..They Even Screwed Up Virtual Reality: The Story of Palmer Luckey and Oculus

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When we talk about the broad swath of technology and its progenitors in Silicon Valley rarely are we talking about great breakthroughs. A n...