Monday, July 29, 2019

The Most Heinous Serial Killer You've Never Heard Of

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I know someone who is absolutely fascinated by true crime stories. She says that Silence of the Lambs  is her Star Wars. And why not? Cri...
Wednesday, July 24, 2019

A 2019 Way To Look At and Talk To Kids About Race

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It’s clear that like it or not, race will once again be the issue of our time. You’d think by now, we would at least the the language right...
Tuesday, July 16, 2019

20 Years Ago Today, the Death of JFK, Jr., Extinguished the Last Flames of Camelot

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From the moment that Jackie Kennedy branded the Kennedy presidency as Camelot, in an interview with author and historian Theodore White, roy...
Wednesday, July 10, 2019

The Welfare Queen and Political Mythology

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We all remember that Al Capone was ultimately busted on tax fraud, even though he had a long, violent and ugly criminal career. We see it p...
Monday, July 1, 2019

The False Mythology of Roger Ailes

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Many of you may have started watching the Showtime series, THE LOUDEST VOICE IN THE ROOM, about Fox News founder Roger Ailes. The problem ...
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...