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. […]
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 […]
Eventually, We’re Going to Have to Do Something Hard
It’s coming. Whether we like it or not. Whether we’re smart or stupid or just plain apathetic, we’re going to have to do something really hard. Together. As a people. I don’t […]
The Fourth Estate
The first Saturday after the 2016 election, I sat down with my kids to eat breakfast at our kitchen table. Cheerios and bacon. It was a Saturday morning dad breakfast if ever […]
Disruption
Silicon Valley didn’t invent disruption. We like to throw the word around like we did though. Uber disrupted taxi and car services. iTunes disrupted the music industry. Google disrupted, well everything. It’s […]
The Tragedy of Politics
There’s an inherent human need to look to the past and connect it with what we’re seeing around us. We seek to anchor the new that we see to something more comfortable. […]
The Marital Bliss of Green Politics
Nothing so much reminds me of the bickering of a dysfunctional married couple than environmental politics. He does something wrong. She points it out. He refuses to acknowledge it. Over time the […]
The Things You Learn About Terrorism, Fighting Terrorism.
I never lost much sleep over what happened to the people we hunted that were doing the types of things that made us hunt them. Chances are, if we came knocking at […]
