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Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America
Why is it that certain cultural and/or ethnic groups tend to have successes, far in excess of their percentage of the population? Jews, Indians, Ira…
11 years, 2 months ago
Vidal
Today we have talking heads and pundits. But back in second half of the 20th century we had writers and public intellectuals, whose ideas, attitudes…
11 years, 2 months ago
The paid dogs of war
The world is a dangerous place. We no longer have the moral clarity and security of the cold war, or of earlier wars where we knew precisely who our…
11 years, 2 months ago
Alexandra Fuller
It is one of the tragic ironies of the psychoanalytic age that we are attracted to people, particularly our partners, who often turn out to be the ve…
11 years, 3 months ago
The Brain's Way
Imagine a machine that can rewire itself, finds its own way to work around non working circuits, heal its own bugs and viruses, find and adapt to new…
11 years, 3 months ago
A Biography of PTSD
Sometimes the reality of war is just too complex and absurd to be understood in real time. Perhaps that why books about war are so powerful and impo…
11 years, 3 months ago
The last time the music business died
As music and the music business evolves today, the content of the music often plays second fiddle to the debate about economics. About digital roya…
11 years, 3 months ago
The Legacy of Tahrir Square...Four years later
Revolutions are hard AND exciting. They combine courage and new ideas and the excitement of once in a generation change. However what’s even harder, …
11 years, 3 months ago
Personality and temperament determine everything!
F. Scott Fitzgerald, in The Great Gatsby, defines personality as “an unbroken series of successful gestures.” Certainly that is the outer manifestat…
11 years, 3 months ago
Congress then and now....Lyndon Johnson and the Battle for the Great Socieity
American political history is a complex and dynamic process. In that process, there have been periods of entropy and period of great progress and im…
11 years, 3 months ago