I read recently that the Harvard Business School is making major changes to its curriculum and that the changes, according to its marketing release, are aimed to “create leaders of competence and character, rather than just connections and credentials”. Evidently, there is a certain concern and maybe a little guilt that 58% of its graduates […]
Archives for February 2011
No Victory, No Peace
A review of the new book, Between War and Peace, a collection of essays edited by Matthew Moten, resonated with a great book I am now completing–The Shield of Achilles, by Philip Bobbitt. This is a sweeping, 800+ page history of war and peace over five centuries, highlighting the impact of war, its preparation, and […]
Texas Again Has an Opportunity to Lead
The current budget crisis offers almost unlimited opportunity. I have said repeatedly over the past several months that I seldom agree with Rahm Emanuel, but I do agree with his observation that “we shouldn’t allow a good crisis to go to waste”. The other recent memorable quote was from Speaker John Boehner: “We can’t kick […]
“The Unhealthy Soul of Liberalism”
The quote in the title is from National Review magazine and I thought it appropos to the knee-jerk reaction across the board in the liberal establishment to the Tucson shooting rampage by the deranged, drug-addled kook Jared Lee Loughner. I suppose that Richard Hofstadter is credited with beginning the current genre with his “The Paranoid […]
It’s Really Not About Health Care
I have said that the 1973 Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade was our generation’s Dred Scott case, and I still believe it is analogous from its position as the seminal event in the culture war that has persisted since. Now we have a decision that I believe, upon final Supreme Court appeal, may […]
Egypt: The Army or Qutb?
The formula that triggered a democratic revolution in the Soviet Union had three components: people inside who yearned to be free, leaders outside who believed they could be, and policies that linked the free world’s relations with the USSR to the Soviet regime’s treatment of its own people……….It will work anywhere around the globe, including […]