Month: August 2012

One of the markers of the tribal and warrior stages of cultural development is the belief that the leader is divine, and has real magical powers. This was true for cultures as recent  as the court of Louis XIV, the Sun King, in...

Profound point here from David Brooks in his 8/23 column in the New York Times: … the No. 1 political fantasy in America today has inebriated both parties. It is the fantasy that the other party will not exist. It is the...

New research reported in this article from CNN Health draws a connection between our genes and how we think politically. By pinpointing certain genes in the human body, scientists can predict parts of a person’s political...

Check out this terrific column by Emily Matchar in Saturday’s Washington Post, “How those spoiled millennials will make the workplace better for everyone.”  Yes, yes, yes, so much of what we reflexively see as wrong...

I’m taking advantage of the national conversation on Medicare to challenge my assumptions and actually learn something. This morning’s column by Robert J. Samuelson in the Washington Post, entitled “Why Ryan might be right about...

Peggy Noonan is always worth reading; she’s reliably conservative but always thoughtful and emotionally-intelligent. In her Wall Street Journal column this week she writes: … we are becoming a nation that believes nothing....

* Chick-fil-A president says says he is against gay marriage. * Gays protest. * Conservatives rally. * Today Google delivers 643,000 results (in.17 seconds) for “Chick-fil-A controversy”. This is evolution at work, my friends....