The curtain on the second act of the original American drama fell at Gettysburg. Four score and seven years earlier, the audience of history had been introduced to the cast of characters […]
The New Risks of Integrated Competition
The End Game
We can’t live without the stories we tell ourselves about our lives. That we tell them is as consistent across time, space and culture as the physical makeup of our biology. Our […]
The Future of Capitalism
Humans and other great apes share a common ancestor. Somewhere between four and 13 million years ago, a spread we could fit a few thousand western civilizations in, our species branched out […]
On Service
Early one morning in June of 2005 I received a panicked phone call from the wife of a friend of mine. She asked me if I had any information on the rumors […]
Baseball
When I was twelve years old, I pitched a one hit, sixteen strike-out game against my team’s Little League rival in the playoffs. I stole home on a delayed steal without a […]
Iraq: A Reflection
Sixteen years and two days ago, the United States invaded Iraq. Sixteen times this date has come and gone. More and more it does without much more than a brief mention in passing. […]
Better Thoughts
Words won’t take us where we need to go. But they’re all I have any more. And it doesn’t feel right, today, to keep them to myself. I was struck by a […]
The Odd Institution
There’s a conversation I once had with the director of admissions at a top west coast business school that I’ve kept tucked away in the back of my mind for the past […]
The Case for the Green New Deal
One of the lessons learned from the 2016 presidential election is that of the dominant power of an asymmetrical actor in a crowded field of conformists. The larger the field and the […]
Unforgivable
When I was 14, I was thrown out of the first high school I attended. It was a public school with plenty of great teachers and opportunities to learn. But it was […]