I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you:
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Global Tilt: Leading Your Business Through the Great Economic Power Shift
Ram Charan
The AIG Story
Maurice R. Greenberg and Lawrence Cunningham
Global Tilt: Leading … READ MORE
Here is a brief excerpt from an article in The American Scholar written by Susan Jacoby. She points out that Robert Ingersoll, the Great Agnostic, inspired late-19th-century Americans to uphold the founders’ belief in separation of church and state.
The American Scholar is the … READ MORE
Here is an excerpt from a lecture delivered by William Deresiewicz to the plebe class at the United States Military Academy at West Point in October 2009. I came upon it in The American Scholar magazine, the venerable but lively quarterly magazine … READ MORE
Here is a brief excerpt from an article in The American Scholar written by William Deresiewicz. He asserts that our best universities have forgotten that the reason they exist is to make minds, not careers
The American Scholar is the venerable but lively quarterly … READ MORE
Toby Lester is a journalist, an editor, and an independent scholar. In addition to writing books, he is a longtime contributor to The Atlantic, for whom he has written extensively, on such topics as the reconstruction of ancient Greek music, the … READ MORE
The Clintons in October 1995 (Courtesy William J. Clinton Presidential Library)
Here is a brief excerpt from the feature article in The American Scholar written by Jane Warwick Yoder and Edwin M. Yoder Jr. They discuss “a friendship … READ MORE
Edmund Burke, Sir Joshua Reynolds, c. 1767-69
I am among those who have a keen interest in the Age of Enlightenment and especially in philosophers such as Edmund Burke whose thoughts about democratic cultures and human rights had … READ MORE
Thanks to The American Scholar magazine’s website, you can now experience at full-strength ”King, Kennedy, and the Power of Words.” Three videos accompany Tim Wendel’s brilliant article.
First, Walter Cronkite‘s televised announcement of Dr. King’s assassination.
Also on the night of April 4, 1968, presidential … READ MORE
Susan Jacoby on: “Robert Ingersoll, the Great Agnostic”