Tuesday nights, my wife and I watch Finding Your Roots on PBS. It’s one of our favorite shows. Every week it’s the same thing. Famous people with a common theme are walked through […]
The Wrong Crisis
An Uncomfortable Truth
There’s a part of me that can’t help but think that we’ve all gone and gotten too sensitive. It’s not a conscious thought. It’s more primal than that. It’s something deep down […]
Chaos is a Ladder
The longest war in the history of our country was triggered by an attack carried out by 19 men on airplanes using box cutters. Over three thousand Americans died. Our financial system […]
Life on The Border
I can see Mexico from my backyard. It shows up as a bright band of twinkling lights on a hill to the south a few miles away. I live on the east […]
The Market Correction
65% of elected offices. 72% of Fortune 500 corporate leaders. 87% of General/Flag rank Officers in the Military. 67% of Police Officers. 89% of partners at VC firms. 80% of Hollywood Directors. […]
I’ve Seen Enough
We’re all on the same team now. As an American, I’m rooting for him. These are the things that people say the day after the candidate they didn’t vote for was elected […]
Review: The Dawn of Eurasia
“A bump in the road for America’s longstanding march of progressive Western Liberalism or a pivot back towards ethnocentric nationalism, Americans find themselves at a crossroads.” That’s from the blurb on the […]
When The Dust Settles
The force of personality that is Donald Trump has made for some strange bedfellows in contemporary American politics. A broad coalition of pundits, former politicians and Americans who, in other times, would […]
What Did We Learn?
I don’t know what a “blue wave” is, beyond a campaign rallying cry turned into a subjective term by which talking heads felt compelled to evaluate the 2018 mid-terms. An election, by […]
What’s at Stake
In the summer of 1989, two years before the fall of the Berlin Wall, political scientist Francis Fukuyama penned the essay, The End of History? In it, he pondered the meaning of the […]
