April 2019 / Ever since a study by the University of Oxford predicted that 47 percent of U.S. jobs are at risk of being replaced by robots and artificial intelligence over the next 15 to 20 years, I haven’t been able to stop thinking about the future of work,” wrote Andres Oppenheimer in his novel, “The Robots Are Coming: The Future of Jobs in the Age of Automation.” Sounds all too familiar as we...
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
February 2019 / The center was not holding—it was a country of bankruptcy notices and public auction announcements and commonplace reports of casual killings and misplaced children and abandoned homes as families routinely disappeared. — Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem Sounds all too familiar as we hurtle past a dysfunctional White House and confront the major new battleground between...
Herbert Hoover’s Ghost
August 2018 / When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned. — Herbert Hoover The Trump administration made a big deal about restoring a bust of Winston Churchill in the Oval Office. But the politician they should have really been identifying with was Herbert Hoover. Never mind that Sarah Palin once accused the Obama administration of coddling enemies...
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