Hope hurts
From Martin Varsavsky: On November 5th Americans will discover that the world did not hate them. That they just hated Bush. (Knocking wood.) And (knocking entire old-growth forests) maybe we’ll...
View ArticleThe Lincoln Memorial rededication
Like every New Yorker reader, I am perpetually behind. But I’ve been greatly enjoying reading issues from before the election. Knowing how it turns out relieves all the stress. It also deepens the joy....
View ArticleHeavens, I’m a flutter
Obama’s letter to his daughters in Parade Magazine this morning wasn’t particularly well done. But I choked up. I’m watching Bruce Springsteen at the concert right now. I’ve never particularly liked...
View ArticleCulture of Hope
Forum d’Avignon is an annual get-together in France to talk about culture, by which most of the attendees (and especially President Sarkozy who came to give a speech) mean how they can squash the...
View ArticleDoes the moral universe arc?
“The arc of the moral universe is long but bends towards justice.” Does it? That saying was of course made famous by Martin Luther King who put it between quotation marks to indicate that it was not...
View ArticleFive minutes of hope
What I find most remarkable about this exchange: So few conversations begin with the request for help changing one’s own mind. The post Five minutes of hope appeared first on Joho the Blog.
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Life will, uh, find a way
Mike Ananny [twitter: ananny] had to guest-lecture a class about media, communications and news on Nov. 9. He recounts the session with an implicit sense of wonder that we can lift our head up from the...
View ArticleObama's legacy: A defining president
JFK for my generation — I was 13 when he was murdered — set the image of what a president should be. Whether or not he actually embodied those virtues doesn’t matter as much as the archetype he...
View ArticlePushing back against Trump: The techie meetup
I’m at an open meeting held by Maciej Ceglowski for techies to get together to think about how we can ameliorate the Trump Effect. It’s being held under the Chatham House Rule. It’s a packed house of...
View Article[liveblog] St. Goodall
I’m in Rome at the National Geographic Science Festival , co-produced by Codice Edizioni which, not entirely coincidentally published, the Italian version of my book Took Big to Know. Jane Goodall is...
View ArticleSixteen speeches
In case you missed any of today’s speeches at The March for Our Lives, here’s a page that has sixteen of them I, on the other hand, am speechless. The post Sixteen speeches appeared first on Joho the...
View ArticleUnpredictable hope
I just briefly posted at Psychology Today about the way hope has been welcomely intruding as grief sometimes does. CC0 image by Peggy und Marco Lachmann-Anke from Pixabay
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