When I was seventeen, I took a pretty good beating from a gang of skinheads at a high school party. It was one of those parties where someone’s parents were away and […]
We’re Never Going Back
This Is Us
The guts of a nation, built on an unnatural divide that’s written into our source code are out in the open for all to see in Charlottesville right now. This is Us. […]
Thoughts on the Google Memo
There’s a growing energy around the idea of diversity intolerance. A collective snap back, if you will, that our insistence on inclusion and political correctness is creating its own sense of intolerance—intolerance […]
The Gift of Social Capital
Last night was “back to school night” in our neighborhood, that fun time where they cram all the parents into the classroom built for third graders to meet the teacher so she […]
Small Thoughts
Dan Pfeffer. Kevin Sullivan. Jen Psaki. Ellen Moran. Jennifer Palmeri. Anita Dunn. Nicole Wallace. Dan Bartlett. Karen Hughes. Recognize any of those names? I don’t. If you do, you’re probably a White […]
The Great Decoupling
In 1880, George Eastman developed a machine that could coat the dry photographic plates used in the sliver gelatin process. In plain English, that means he made it easier to make the […]
Reason to Believe
In the mid 90’s, when I was there, Admiral Chuck Larson was the Superintendent of the United States Naval Academy—the Navy’s version of a university president. He was a full blown four-star […]
