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The real evolution of Steve Jobs
One of the dangers of our celebrity culture today, is that we tend to look at those who've attained that status, regardless of their field of endeavo…
11 years, 1 month ago
Creative Destruction comes to Warfare
Technological change and creative destruction is everywhere. It’s changed the way we work, the way we interact with each other, the foundation of ed…
11 years, 1 month ago
Editing life code
Conventional wisdom has long held that evolution is something that takes place slowly and over centuries. Concurrently we know that technological c…
11 years, 1 month ago
The Myth of America as a "Christian Nation"
It was Churchill who reminded us that history is written by the victors. Well this is as true of religious history as it is of military, political a…
11 years, 1 month ago
Boston's other unsolved crime
Art theft is always a funny thing. The public is usually fascinated by the story, but can seldom feel the kind of empathy with the theft, they feel …
11 years, 1 month ago
Eating Viet Nam
Historians and journalists have devoted millions of pages to trying to understand the world. In fact, it may be a lot simpler than that. Just maybe …
11 years, 1 month ago
Space is a family business
Even back in the tumultuous 60’s we were enamored with the space program. The idea of man “slipping the surly bonds of earth,” captured the nation'…
11 years, 1 month ago
Gary Wills on The Future of the Catholic Church
If there is a single point of cognitive dissonance in our world today, it revolves around change. We love change. We think we like to embrace the n…
11 years, 1 month ago
The End of College
Our College and University system in America grew up in opposition to the old European model. Americans didn’t want to be locked in to specific trai…
11 years, 1 month ago
Suicide is not Painless
Most of us remember the theme song from Mash, “Suicide is Painless:”
Through early morning fog I seevisions of the things to bethe pains that are wit…
11 years, 1 month ago