Communication and Change
I recently spoke at a TedX conference on Peace in the beautiful village of Pugwash, Nova Scotia. Pugwash and peace have a historic connection: the Nobel Prize-winning Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs were founded in 1957 by … [Continue reading] about “The War of the Worldviews” at TedX Pugwash
I was so glad to see President Biden speak clearly and forcefully last night about the true scale of the threat facing our democracy. The history is clear: Biden was right to link Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin with both the … [Continue reading] about Why Biden was right to link MAGA, the Confederacy & the Axis in his SOTU address
As we risk obliviously repeating catastrophic mistakes others have already made, some thoughts about memory and freedom, from people who know the precious value of both... Most of us in the U.S. have been spared the necessity of knowing history, … [Continue reading] about Will we survive “the desert of organized forgetting?”
On recent episodes of Dastardly Cleverness in the Service of Good (available on all apps and now on YouTube): How to win elections so we still *have* elections, featuring two guests with experience at all levels of politics going back to the … [Continue reading] about On the podcast: The Rise of Tyranny, What to Know About Tech and Kids, and more
I spoke recently with reporter Antonio Fins for the Palm Beach Post and USA Today network (there's a non-paywalled version at the The Destin Log) about how the increasingly extreme positions of Republican leaders like Florida Governor Ron DeSantis … [Continue reading] about GOP Extremism Expands the Democratic Map