ALL AHEAD FLANK
Written to invite your thinking, these occasional essays offer my views on the wide stream of events and ideas carrying us forward. Reposted in Medium for a general audience, I look forward to longer exchanges here.
Demand More of America’s Leaders
Christian Science Monitor—July 2002 As the arts of sloganeering and political manipulation become the first competencies of public officials, I worry about a general decline in the quality of public leadership. One might make the connection to the nation's—indeed, the...
Save a Slot for Columbia
Christian Science Monitor—June 2002 In a world churning with activity, we tend to stare at only one or two headline-quality problems at a time. This op-ed suggested that we take a minute from other crises to watch one of the planet's primal struggles. The jury is...
No to Anti-Arab Bigotry
Christian Science Monitor—May 2, 2002 No to anti-Arab bigotry, The US must see Mideast Arabs as part of the solution—May Writing this piece, my concern was that the American-led war on terror was taking a wrong turn into the fuzzy belief that Arab and Islam were...
Listen for Peace
Christian Science Monitor—April 2002 My own title for this piece is "Visible Listening." Advocating strategic listening as our most powerful public diplomacy tool, this was written six months into the "war" on terrorism. It was clear then that America's moral standing...