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Bobby Kennedy
For those of us that old enough, when we think back to JFK and Camelot, we think of a time of innocence, of renewal and of possibility. And then th…
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How Digital Memory May Change What Makes Us Human
Back in 320 BC Socrates worried about how written language would impact our ability to remember. This was long, long before moveable type, the compu…
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Campaign 1776 - The War That We Almost Lost
On this day, upon which we celebrate the birth of the “American Experiment,” it’s important to remember that it was not preordained.
In spite of to…
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Love Wins
Oliver Brown, the lead plaintiff in Brown v. the Board of Education was a parent of a child denied access to a Topeka Kansas School. Clarence Gideon…
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Who Started the War On Government?
In 1953 in his first Inaugural Address, Dwight Eisenhower talked about the positive impacts of government. Thirty years later Ronald Reagan castigat…
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The Future is Inevitable
If there is one overriding meme today it’s about fear. Fear of change, fear of a shrinking world, fear of the impact of technology; in short fear o…
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Before the Play, There Was the Book
Before Lin-Manuel Miranda, before the Play there was the book. Miranda has talked about how his inspiration was Ron Chernow's 2004 book about Hamilt…
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The Power of Grit
We are a nation that believes deeply in the Horatio Alger story of hard work and pulling oneself up by their bootstraps. In political terms this ha…
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What Really Helps Children Succeed?
We know that children living in poverty generally tend to do worse academically than middle class kids. We also know that even some kids from wealt…
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The Tribal Bonds of Soldiers
“We hear of of war and the rumor of war.” We thank our soldiers for their service and we think that we are welcoming them back into society. But w…
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