Reframing America’s Debate
In American Dream
A nation is a family. Like a family, a nation offers support to the member who, in turn, support the family — pay taxes, remain loyal, and maybe even defend the homestead when needed. What this big family called a nation owes its members varies depending on its resources and state of well-being. The point…Read More
In Sunday’s New York Times Book Review, Adam Frank, an astrophysics professor at the University of Rochester, examined a new book by Michio Kaku, in which, like many theorists, Kaku speculates that in this century we’ll be able to essentially replicate the human mind using technology. Frank did an admirable job of applying skepticism to…Read More
From Africa to Harvard
In A Dream So Big
After their third child, Stephen Wrigley, died only eight days from birth, Steve and Nancy Peifer decided to leave their American lives behind and move to Africa. At the time, he was a corporate manager with Oracle who oversaw 9,000 computer software consultants. They moved with their children to Kenya, where they eventually became educational…Read More
From a friend: I couldn’t put this book down, but more than that, it affected me deeply. Because I read it on the Kindle, I had the benefit of the video clips at the end, and the one of your mother, the day before your reunion, and of you and your brother getting off the…Read More
Make Being Good Your Job
In Activism
Sometimes doing the right thing is a matter of simply paying attention to an obvious opportunity embedded in what you are doing in your job or daily life — and then having the confidence and courage to make it happen. It’s a matter of ignoring that part of your brain that’s constantly whispering to you, You…Read More
