Greek tragedy, democracy, social media and the Taiping Rebellion. What do they have to do with inoculation? I’m not talking about viral inoculation of course, though we’ll need plenty of that as well. I’m speaking to the rapid changes that civilization has brought about and the ability or lack thereof…

With my vote I signed a Declaration of Independence from the specter of a tyrannical leadership. Our soon-to-be-past president has lacked the wisdom and empathy required to lead a nation founded on a vision of fighting for liberty at all costs. We have never been a nation of equality but…

Values — we’ve all got them, they’re the principles or standards of behavior we deem to be important in our lives. They come in two flavors —personal practices and ideals. But there’s an interloper in our values: Doctrine. A classic example is Capitalism. On face value it seems like an…

No I don’t mean productivity in the strictly capitalistic sense. Though Productivity does tend to improve the overall economy. So what why do I capitalize the P in Productivity? I mean Productivity of the sort that is embodied in the century old tried and true science of Human Development. It’s…

I’d like to keep democracy very much. But I’m not sure in practice that a fearful, apathetic, disinterested double digit percentage of Americans have a strong sense of what the other options are and the pros and cons. People have been ceding power to authoritarian governments for a long time…

In the Science Fiction series “Foundation” Azimov wrote in detail about Psychohistory, a way that advanced human beings could predict to a large extent the evolutions of humanity over hundreds and thousands of years. In reality there is such a means of understanding the evolution of man of time but…