ReLaunch: How to Stage an Organizational Comeback by Mark Rutland My rating: 5 of 5 stars This is a book that the NSA board is reading together. One of the best leadership books I have ever read. View all my reviews
Review: Why Gender Matters: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know about the Emerging Science of Sex Differences
Why Gender Matters: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know about the Emerging Science of Sex Differences by Leonard Sax My rating: 4 of 5 stars Great information here on the current state of brain science with regard to the differences between boys and girls. Some fascinating stuff here. At the same time, Dr. Sax …
Review: Moby-Dick
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville My rating: 4 of 5 stars This is one of the books I put on my “bucket book” list — books that I really ought to have read by this time in my life but, though my own miserable failings, had not. Any how, I finally got this one done. This …
Copping a Plea
So we need to spend some time talking about the police, about police misbehavior and brutality, and about the hard partisan line taken by some who rant against the cops on Facebook. Let’s talk policy first, and justice second. As a matter of law and policy, I believe that citizens should be absolutely free to …
The One Thing Bruce Jenner Got Right
There are two primal drives that define men and women in this fallen world. There is the thirst for forgiveness and there is the lust to start over. Outside these two groups would be those who are not really paying attention. Both groups recognize that life as it is . . . is miserable. Both …
Our Only Tribal Tattoo
So some of the discussion in the comments to the previous post about angry husbands made me think of something else that needs saying. It is not possible to say everything at once. If I write a post about angry husbands, it is not, by its very nature, a post about slothful wives. I could …
A Good Chance to Clear the Air
Because Both Sides Are in the Story
“Narrative theology is important — crucial in fact. But when it becomes apparent that it is important in this world of war, both sides will attempt to seize it, and will use it to their own ends. This is why it is as silly to assume that someone is a postmodernist because he emphasizes story …
DuPont’s Finest
If authenticity were a slab of ancient oak, burnished and polished to shine with royal splendor as it served as a magnificent table in the great hall of the mountain king, our generation would be able to point proudly to our version as a paper-thin blonde veneer on top of a rickety yard-sale table in …
So There’s That
“For example, the invention of the printing press did lead to a widespread distribution of books. The invention of the Internet has likewise lead to a widespread dissemination of cat videos” (Rules for Reformers, pp. 151-152).