Aug 31, 2020Decoding the World’s StoryIf the world were being diagnosed in a psychiatrist’s office today, the diagnosis might very likely be schizophrenia. If you spend time o...
Aug 31, 2020Women. An asset we are wasting. Four things led me recently to reflect on women. Not just any women, but women in research. 1) A significant number of posts on LinkedIn ...
Aug 31, 2020Unless you change my narrative, you can’t change my thinkingI recently read a very thought-provoking article by Susan Fader (FaderFocus) on the need to incorporate Narrative Economics into market r...
May 15, 2020Or, By and ForThe United States likes to think of itself as exceptional. And it should. This is a country founded on what were then uniquely different ...
May 15, 2020What it Really Means to BelongOver the last few days, we have been examining the social contract between government and society through the lens of Maslow’s Hierarchy....
May 15, 2020The Road to DictatorshipDictators rise to power – and stay there – by taking one of two roads. The first is by military means. The second is by getting elected (...
May 12, 2020Kleptocracy Kills Democracy In his 1796 farewell address to the nation at the end of his second term as President, George Washington spoke out against what he saw as...
May 12, 2020Government, Society and Existential Security Yesterday – May 8, 2020 – we celebrated the 75th anniversary of Victory in Europe (VE) Day. It was a very timely reminder of how one gene...
May 11, 2020Dumbing Down AmericaWhy is modern-day America so willing to disregard facts and science in the service of conspiracies and cult thinking? Why does our techno...
May 8, 2020Social Security in its Broadest Sense In the past couple of days we have examined how both health and economic security were severely compromised in this country even before C...
May 7, 2020Repairing the Economic Social Contract Yesterday I argued that the Economic Social Contract in the US is broken, if it ever really existed in the last forty years. But that doe...
May 7, 2020Covid-19 and the Social ContractIn a democracy, the intrinsic contract between government and the electorate is that government will use its resources, sourced from taxp...
May 7, 2020Why the Economic Contract is Broken Is there such a thing as an Economic Social Contract? Is it government’s obligation to provide for the economic security of its citizens?...
May 7, 2020The Failure of American Health Security There is no doubt that there were catastrophic errors of judgment by the US government in terms of readying the country’s health system t...
Feb 13, 2020How Money Eases The Path to DictatorshipSimon Chadwick Author of “For The People: A Citizen’s Manifesto to Shaping Our Nation’s Future” There are two paths to dictatorship – the...
Dec 11, 2019Welcome!If you have come this far, it suggests to me that you may be as concerned as I am about the direction in which our country is moving. We ...
