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Freedom, Liberty & America...A Look Back
Episode 219
In his book Profiles in Courage, JFK writes that courage exists “when a man does what he must — in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstac…
7 years, 11 months ago
Dear Madam President
Episode 218
There is a line from the 1973 movie The Way We Were, where Katie Morosky, played by Barbra Streisand, talks about Hubbell Gardner, played by Robert R…
8 years ago
The Fragility of Hope
Episode 217
Woody Allen once said that the world was divided into the horrible and the miserable. The horrible he thought were people with terminal cases, blind …
8 years ago
Why We Have More Time to Have No Time
Episode 216
Isn’t it interesting that the more we have technology to save us time, the more we complain about not having enough time. Before the digital revoluti…
8 years ago
Immigration and the False Lure of the American Dream
Episode 215
There is not a day that goes by that the subject of immigration is not in some way part of our national discussion. However, even with all the talk, …
8 years ago
An Important Day In The Life of Robert F. Kennedy
Episode 214
In 1964 Lyndon Johnson enacted his war on poverty. Three years later Robert Kennedy knelt in a crumbling shack in Mississippi, watching a toddler pic…
8 years ago
The 75-Year-Old Book That Drives Our Politics Today
Episode 213
The legendary studio boss Harry Cohn once said to one of his writers, that if you want to send a political message, use Western Union. The point was …
8 years ago
The Internet Is Killing Democracy Facebook Is the Shiny Object, but the Danger Is Much Larger
Episode 212
Emma Gonzalez and David Hogg understood how to maximize social media to achieve the highest in democratic ends. The Russians and Cambridge Analytica …
8 years ago
Neuroscience is The New Moneyball
Episode 211
I think it was Howard Cosell who first referred to sports at the “toy department of life.” Oftentimes player performance has been put down as people…
8 years ago
Why Tech May Usher in The Universal Basic Income, and Why It's Really Pro Business
Episode 210
In the movie Jurassic Park, perhaps the most famous line is that “nature will find a way.” It might just as accurately be said today, that technolog…
8 years ago