We live in the age of experts. In many cases, unless the government licenses you to have an opinion worth sharing, you’d better keep your thoughts to [...]

America today is nothing if not a factory for metaphors and aphorisms. “When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions,” quoth the Bard, [...]

Has anyone else noticed that most of the visionary leadership in the civil sphere today is being offered by Republicans or Independents who are former [...]

For the sake of argument, let’s assume the Democrats are correct about Donald J. Trump. This author does not accept their argument, but let’s go with it to [...]

“The grave; the barren womb; land, which is never satisfied with water; and fire, which never says, ‘Enough!’ All these things, Solomon tells us, never [...]

Eisenhower’s America was peaceful, productive, safe, kind, thoughtful, and civilized. No wonder so many people remember it fondly. But others consider it [...]

It’s probably no coincidence that one of the most significant movies of the past 10 years is titled La La Land. This author couldn’t sit through more than [...]

By conquering this new world, compels me now To do what else, though damned, I should abhor. So spake the Fiend, and with necessity, The tyrant’s plea, [...]

We have discussed the high value of systems and teams in this space before. Collective action can be powerful and productive. It can also be immensely [...]

Of Elephants and Mice Circuses are no longer as common as they once were, but some in the reading audience might remember the elephant balanced on a very small [...]

A well-known aphorism asserts that, “There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behooves any of us to find [...]

In 1987 Thomas Sowell wrote A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles. In this book, he said, “Visions rest ultimately on some [...]