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Monday, August 13, 2018
Lessons From Jonah: Are You and I Like Him?
Growing up you no doubt heard the story of Jonah and the whale. You may remember it as a cute little Bible story about a man who was swallowed by a big fish and after he prayed, the whale spewed Jonah out onto dry land. But there’s a whole lot more to the story, and perhaps a critical lesson or two for you and me as well.
Climate Obsession: Blinding Us to Real Environmental Problems
Are there bigger environmental concerns than climate change? Certainly. But we don’t hear that from our daily news anchors and bulletins.
Short Live the Legislature!
When Roger Wolcott, the 39th governor of Massachusetts, delivered his inaugural address in 1897, he urged state legislators to stop spending so much time on Beacon Hill, trying to justify longer and longer sessions by introducing more and more bills.
Strong Patents: Key to a Strong Economy
I recently had the pleasure to sit on a panel with a number of incredible inventors and leaders on innovation issues in an experience that was both inspiring and infuriating.
Rumors of God’s Death
Mark Twain is credited with being the first person to say that rumors of his death were greatly exaggerated. In the case of God, it’s Friedrich Nietzsche, a 19th-century German wisenheimer, who first spread the rumor of His demise. It’s alleged that God replied, “I happen to be alive, but you’re kaput.”
Sunday, August 12, 2018
Book Underlines Axiom That if You Want Peace, Prepare for War
Scholars have already debated for decades, and will debate for centuries, the role U.S. policies — military, diplomatic, economic — played in bringing the Cold War to endgame and the Soviet Union to extinction. One milestone was Ronald Reagan’s 1983 Strategic Defense Initiative proposal, a technological challenge that could not be met by a Soviet economy already buckling under the combined weight of military spending and socialism’s ignorance. But before SDI there was Ocean Venture ’81, initiated by Reagan as president-elect.
Saturday, August 11, 2018
A Hero On and Off the Field
Because I was born in Chicago and raised in LA, people, knowing me to be a lifelong baseball fan, have often asked why I didn’t pull for the Cubs, the White Sox, or the Dodgers but instead rooted for the Boston Red Sox from 1948 through 1995. The short answer is Ted Williams.
‘Mythical Mammals’ and the Wonders of the Real World
Have you seen the Nature Valley (the granola bar people) ad out of Canada? It has been making the social-media rounds lately, because it seems to capture something that is well within our power to fix.
Dumping on U.S. Again
The dog days of summer are here, and we’re getting daily reminders of the growing hostility to our shared symbols of American patriotism. This week an Atlanta charter school announced plans to dump the Pledge of Allegiance from its morning agenda. Predictably, the school said the change was being made in the name of “inclusiveness.” That’s nuts.
Friday, August 10, 2018
Why a Nation in Turmoil Must Choose Civility
In 1961, I participated in what a Richmond, Va., newspaper called “one of the most ambitious experiments in race-mixing the South had seen.” With the nation in turmoil, 25 other black students and I helped integrate an all-white junior high school.
Democrats Have Their Own Foreign Espionage Problem
The media should give this security breach the same attention they would if it involved Russia and the Republicans.
Social Media Giants Shouldn’t Be Arbiters of Appropriate Speech
It’s implausible to imagine a future in which liberal activists don’t demand that Republican groups be de-platformed.