As my regular readers know, I have long emphasized that all of America’s major dysfunction is rooted in what I have referred to as “Problem #1” — the reality that we are divided by alternate realities. …
Our vision is our destiny
I live under what one might consider the curse of optimistic idealism, a state of mind that leaves me open to my wife’s soft ridicule of high expectations. …
Plies Lies, Cults Cult
Clever title, isn’t it? …
A Chance for President Biden to Deliver a New Reality
When President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Tennessee Valley Authority Act soon after he took office in 1933, it marked one of the most wide-reaching and audacious responses of an American government to the ravages of disease and destitution. The TVA was a massive depression era hydro-electric project that brought…
From Moses to Mulberry Street
In the face of a worldwide pandemic, massive economic upheaval, a nationwide reckoning with systemic racism, and a loss of a shared reality, according to Fox News and everyone who takes their word as gospel, our most urgent existential threat right now is something called cancel culture. …
The Olympic Games are the closest thing I have to a religion. Like most all religions, it has its good and bad, its light and dark sides — its triumphs and its atrocities. But the common thread is always an ideal — an aspirational set of principles motivating us to…
My dad died in spring of 2014, the day before his 78th birthday. His was a good life filled with love, pride and accomplishment. He lived it in a way that elevated everyone around him, and he had an enduring sense of optimism that became the source of family folklore…
Consider that humanity emerges from the confines of a womb with an instinctual desire to conquer space. Many a frazzled mother has endured the efforts of their unborn child to kick their way out, but once the escape is executed, the mission escalates. …
While our national war of conflicting realities might make this hard to believe, our country, and the system of government upon which it is built, are actually the products of the Age of Enlightenment.
It was both despite and because of their flaws that America’s Founding Fathers mustered the courage…
What January 6th should tell us about the future
It was a shocking attack on a building that was both a symbol of American freedom and a pillar of our cultural success. It was waged by the most radical members of a movement who’s deluded motive was to tear down our success for what they believed was a more…
