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From a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League
As we debate immigration, we still always look favorably on the “Dreamers.” The young undocumented students thriving here in America. It’s easy to…
10 years, 8 months ago
Eighty Years Ago, Paperback Books Were Considered "Creative Destruction"
Today when we think about the publishing industry, we usually think about the ways that it is changing to accommodate the digital world…
10 years, 9 months ago
Is Water the Sine Qua Non of "red" and "blue" America?
I’m often the first to criticize the way in which we are too quick to put things in political terms. Too often the rush to label “red” or “blue” Ame…
10 years, 9 months ago
The New Science of Criminal Injustice
We are told, almost from childhood, that we have a legal system and a government of laws and not of men. Yet it is a system created by man and subje…
10 years, 9 months ago
Are you ever surprised that you are being lied to?
To about the same degree that Captain Renault was “shocked, just shocked” to find gambling going on Casablanca, that’s how shocked many of us are to …
10 years, 9 months ago
Big Science and The Launch of the Military Industrial Complex
We all remember Ben Franklin flying his kite, or Alexander Graham Bell calling for Watson, even Jonas Salk working quietly in his laboratory.
Today s…
10 years, 9 months ago
Baseball's Endless Season - Is it too long?
As we hit the half way mark in the Baseball season, how many players are injured, how many are burnt out already? Are we creating a softer group of …
10 years, 9 months ago
Primates of Park Avenue
We have always studied other cultures so that perhaps we could better understand our own. The realm of cultural anthropology has provided us keen ins…
10 years, 9 months ago
How to Keep Listening When the World Wants a Fight
Listen to any of the Republican candidates and it’s clear that the culture war issues that have driven so much political debates over the past 50+ ye…
10 years, 9 months ago
Being Nixon: A Man Divided
Most of us know the legendary story of the group of blind men who touch an elephant to learn what it is like. Each one feels a different part, but o…
10 years, 10 months ago