Mass movements, and cultural changes in general, are driven by True Believers, people who are committed to their cause with religious zeal. But the core of the movement is often too small to make much progress without mobilizing others. Beyond that core of True Believers, I think, is a much …
One of my long-term irritations with nonprofits is that donors can get deductions for donations to organizations that don’t have as much social impact as other organizations. I don’t think that donations to most large-city symphonies, or yet another $100M to Harvard, makes much of a social difference, but the …
Last September, Columbia Journalism Review reported on American’s low and declining trust in the media. In hope of exposing some reason for …
While reading a bit about KIPP schools, a compensatory education program for minority students, I found a report that has some interesting, …
The US has been shedding manufacturing jobs since about 2000. ( Not 1970 as many people believe . ) But, a capital spending …
Here is an excellent comment to an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education. The commenter, mark_r_harris, is a teacher in South Korea …
There are certain dangers of speculating on the limits of science. From What it Means to be 98% Chimpanzee, by Jonathan Marks, …
The United Nations recently released its 2010 Human Development Report, ranking Norway as the most developed country in the world, and inviting …
Alternet is showing itself to be a master of self promotion by brethlessly hyping the pivotal impact of its investigation into the …
Donald M Berwick is the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, appointed by president Obama a few months ago. …