Government, industry, media, all consistently refer to us, not as people, but as “consumers”. Our economy is driven by consumer…
A wall of the Museum of fine Arts, Boston, MA, shouts in blue neon, “All Art Has Been Contemporary”. The…
In recent decades as income disparity increased, upward mobility decreased. In the same period, quality of education deteriorated for those…
The degree to which we value education determines teacher quality and the emphasis students place on academic achievement. We talk…
Everyone in this country is entitled to an education through high school, but that is not true in many parts…
I was working in Washington DC during the Clinton era in what was, and still is, a divided city. On…
The ongoing protests and uprisings in the Middle East are nearly continuous in our daily news, as rebel factions challenge…
In 1949 Norbert Weiner, a mathematics professor at MIT and founder of the science of cybernetics, wrote an essay on…
In the ongoing government budget debacle the Obama Administration is offering the Chained-CPI as an option for reducing government expenditures.…
The perpetrators have been subdued, one dead, the other seriously injured. Life in Boston returns to normal with defiant determination…