August 30, 2023

The Decline of Happiness and the Decline of Marriage

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David Brooks devoted one of his recent columns to the subject of marriage.  “Marriage, not career, brings happiness” the headline reads.  Th...

"Can Democracy Work? A Short History of a Radical Idea from Ancient Athens to our World" Author James Miller

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As I read, I am increasingly impressed by this book, an important reason being its relevance to my experience at Procter & Gamble as a u...
August 12, 2023

The Past Repeats Itself--The Second Coming of the Klu Klux Klan--Its Echoing Today

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  Linda Gordon’s  The Second Coming of the Ku Klux Klan:    The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition  reveals a pi...
July 27, 2023

The Israeli and Palestinian Conflict--Looking Back Fourteen Years

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Yesterday, the Israeli Parliament (KNESSET) passed a major piece of legislation which will limit the Supreme Court of Israel from overruling...
July 22, 2023

A Chilling and Dangerous Assault on Truth

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Read this and you will hear echoes from 200 years ago of slave owners' absurd justifications for slavery in the history to be taught tod...
July 18, 2023

Wars of Choice; Wars of Necessity--"Looking for the Good War"

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  LOOKING FOR THE GOOD WAR:    AMERICAN AMNESIA AND THE VIOLENT PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS  BY ELIZABETH D. SAMET   There is a great deal I like i...
July 4, 2023

The Ever Present Threat of Fascism

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 Jason Stanley has written a still very timely book:  How Fascism Works:    The Politics of Us and Them. One reviewer described it this way...