May 10, 2021

A Dramatic Example of the Role of Contingency and the Individual in History

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  I just finished reading one of the most galvanizing and analytically insightful books I can recall recently reading called  Hitler’s 30 Da...
May 3, 2021

Creating and Sustaining a Winning, Successful Organization—Its Relevance to Procter & Gamble (Or any Great Organization)

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  Yuval Levin’s book,  A Time to Build:  From Family and Community to Congress and a Campus, How Recommitting to our Institutions Can Revive...
April 20, 2021

George Saunders' "A Swim in the Pond in the Rain"-A Landmark Tutorial on Writing

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  I found this a humbling and mind-opening book.   I left it realizing even more that I should have spent more time editing everything I hav...

Congressman John Lewis: An Icon of Courage, Persistence and Faith

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  Jon Meacham’s biography of John Lewis is a wonderful book.  It’s not, as Meacham himself said, a “full-blown biography”; it stops in its d...
April 13, 2021

President Biden's Infrastructure Bill—"A Bridge Too Far"

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  There is scarcely anything in President Biden’s proposed infrastructure plan I don’t agree with, even though, as many Republicans and some...
March 24, 2021

How Many Lives Have to Be Lost Before We—Finally—Pass Common Sense Gun Legislation

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  I first posted this blog almost three years ago. I do so today after the murder of ten more people in a single incident in Boulder,  Color...
March 10, 2021

"'Equity' Works as a Mandate to Discriminate"

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  So reads the provocative and mistaken headline to an opinion piece posted in  The Wall Street Journal  on March 5, authored by Professor E...