Frenemies, anyone?
Is it wishful to think that coalition-building might help chart a way forward?
Punctuated (!) Equilibrium
Photo by Sean McAuliffe on Unsplash Close your eyes and picture a four-year-old child drawing a circle. Strange, I know, but trust me on this one. Unless this four-year-old is an artistic prodigy, their circle will most likely...
Windows and frames
Savvy framing can allow many policies to become relevant in windows that otherwise would not have allowed for success.
Beyond conflict, solutions?
Persisting in conflict – seemingly more for conflict’s sake than for moving the collective mind toward solutions – has been quite costly. Blood and treasure come firstly to mind, with lasting societal scar tissue running a close third.
Your Thanksgiving Table?
In 1973 my father ruined the family vacation by watching the Watergate hearings every minute of every day. I was a teenager. I thought he had lost his mind. So boring. Not to mention tedious, contentious, picayune. Last week I logged more hours of TV than I had in...
Big blue policy ocean
Something about being the middle child, you learn to absorb and balance out emotions. Often they are not your own. Something about growing up during the Vietnam war, as a middle child, you learn to hate conflict. Not just in a faraway rice paddy, but around the dinner...