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How many of you have been asked recently to name your favorite or most influential books? It’s a process that has been all the rage on social media.…
11 years, 6 months ago
The Lessons of 1970's S. Africa
The world of historical fiction always plays an interesting role. On the one hand, it's an entertaining way for us to understand, often from 30k fee…
11 years, 6 months ago
Literature vs. The Future
Although it doesn’t seem like it in today's world of images and 140 characters, words, stories and literature once moved people and nations and chang…
11 years, 6 months ago
Superstorm Sandy +2 years - What have we learned?
As we watch day after day, the government response to a potential Ebola crisis, we are reminded of so many mistakes that various government agencies …
11 years, 6 months ago
The Birth of the Pill
There are many legacies of the 1960’s. The Civil Rights movement, the antiwar movement, and the efforts of women to have reproductive choice. Of the…
11 years, 6 months ago
Sonia Sotomayor and the Politics of Justice
When we think about the Supreme Court, and its hushed, hallowed halls, and John Adams dictum that we are a nation of laws and not of men, words that …
11 years, 6 months ago
How the World Works
Today, as we look around the world, it sometimes seems to be spinning out of control. It feels like a time, to quote Yates, when the falcon cannot he…
11 years, 6 months ago
The Robots are coming
For a while now technology has seemed to focus on only one aspect or another of information. Everything from Google to Facebook, to Instagram, to a…
11 years, 6 months ago
Understanding the Internet of Things
Although the origins of the quote are a bit murky, the idea that the only way to predict the future is to invent it, certainly seems true in the 21st…
11 years, 6 months ago
The Week Politics Went Tabloid
For those that study and write about politics, the holy grail is to find those seminal moments in the nation's public and political life that change …
11 years, 6 months ago