After three attempts, Mexico has now decisively given Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) a chance to install his brand of populist nationalism and take on Donald Trump in what may be the highest stakes yet, at least in this century, in the relationship between our two countries. AMLO comes into office as President with a […]
The Supreme Court and the Kennedy Succession
The Supreme Court has just completed one of the more consequential terms in recent memory, with significant victories for constitutional liberties. Probably the most significant was with Janus v. Afscme, wherein the Court ruled 5-4 to overturn a deeply flawed precedent in the 1977 Abood decision that allowed states to require workers who aren’t union […]
Another Limited But Positive Court Decision for Religious Freedom
The Supreme Court has just announced its decision in the Colorado “wedding cake case” by ruling that a baker who refused to bake a cake for a same sex wedding on religious grounds did not get a fair hearing before the state civil rights commission and shouldn’t be penalized. It was a 7-2 ruling, but […]
Kissinger on Artificial Intelligence and Its Threats
In a recent provocative article in The Atlantic entitled “How the Enlightenment Ends”, Henry Kissinger provides much-needed context and definition to the issues and concerns around the explosive growth of artificial intelligence (AI) that includes warnings that we ignore at our peril. To cut to the chase, he makes the case that—philosophically, intellectually, in every […]
Should We “Track” High School Students?
We are about to arrive at the tenth anniversary of a document of which I am proud to have been a co-author named “Common Ground: A Declaration of Principles and Strategies for Texas Education Policy”. This paper was the product of ten months of intensive discussion in periodic sessions held in three cities during 2008 […]
China’s Puzzling Recognition of Karl Marx
China’s recognition of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Karl Marx is strange on several levels. First, it comes during what many believe and the facts support in large measure, which is a capitalism-inspired economic miracle for the country. Second, it honors a man whose economic theories were largely discredited and whose philosophical grasp […]
Facebook and Privacy
Except for a very brief time early on, I have never been a member of Facebook, so I don’t really write as a “user”, neither have I been “used”, so I only have a couple of independent observations to make about the revelation involving the use or abuse of data from 87 million users by […]
The U. S. and China: The Mandate for Transformational Leadership
“No relationship will be as important to the 21st century as the one between the United States, the world’s great power, and China, the world’s rising power”–Richard N. Haas, President, Council on Foreign Relations, April 2007 “Let China sleep; when she wakes, she will shake the world”–Napoleon, 1817 The world is faced with so many […]
A Big Win for the Liberal Arts at West Point
I was very pleased with the recent announcement of the new Humanities Center at the U. S. Military Academy, to be located prominently on Trophy Hill at West Point, which will provide collaborative spaces for academics and cadets and serve as a hub for interdisciplinary work that brings insights from the liberal arts and humanities […]
Lone Star Nation
After it sat on my shelf for several years, I finally got around to reading Lone Star Nation, by H. W. Brands, and quickly discovered what a treat I had been missing. I guess I thought I knew all I wanted to know about the formative history of Texas, particularly since I consumed the late […]
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