https://www.amazon.com/Who-Says-Youre-Dead-Concerned/dp/1616209224 Medicine’s advances are happening so quickly can the ethics and laws surrounding these changes keep up? In the new book, ‘Who Says You’re Dead'(yes there are different definitions for that, too), Dr. Jacob Appel, an attending psychiatrist ay Mount Sinai and celebrated bioethicist, serves up provocative scenarios which demonstrate how complicated this all …
https://www.amazon.com/Dont-Be-Afraid-Win-Business/dp/1635766788 America seems to be hanging together by a thread these days. In some ways the only normalcy seems to be between the lines when we see our professional sports teams come together to compete. We get lost in it for a few hours and put aside all else in the world. And yet …
https://www.baypath.edu/ Donald Trump has a unique leadership style, to say the least. In this episode, we explore his impact on the notion of what a leader should, or should not, be doing going forward. Thanks to the expertise of Dr. Joshua Weiss, Director of the MS program in leadership and negotiation at Bay Path University …
https://www.amazon.com/Cemetery-Dead-David-Charles-Sloane/dp/022653944X While we have professionalized the rituals of dying, from our care in the final days of life to the processes of interment with funeral home directors, it is fair to say that a trend in our society is that Americans are taking back control of the process. People seem to be craving a more …
https://www.amazon.com/Losing-Reality-Political-Religious-Zealotry/dp/1620974991 : Robert Jay Lifton, a psychiatrist and public intellectual, has been working on the sources and dangers of inhuman zealotry for decades. The conditions and individuals he studies involve brainwashing, religious extremists, political cultists and mass murderers. In the process he examines totalitarian politics from the left and right, disinformation and social media impacts. …
https://www.amazon.com/Fire-upon-Us-Baldwin-William/dp/0691181543 On February 18, 1965 a packed hall at Cambridge Union in Cambridge, England came to see a historic, televised debate between James Baldwin, the leading literary voice of the civil rights movement, and William F. Buckley, Jr., a relentless critic of the movement and America’s most influential conservative intellectual. The topic was ‘the American …
https://www.amazon.com/Price-Admission-Americas-Colleges-Outside-ebook/dp/B000WJVKBC Candidate one has good grades, great SAT scores, and a boatload of extracurricular activities. Candidate two has OK grades, average SATs and his parents donated $1 million to the school’s capital campaign. Who gets in? Take a guess. In America’s most elite colleges only 40 percent of the students enrolled are strictly there …
https://publicintegrity.org/author/liz-essley-whyte/ How do you imagine most bills are constructed in state legislatures in America? Is it by one aggressive lawmaker having a novel idea and drafting the bill from scratch for their fellow legislators to review and vote on? That’s one way, but increasingly there is a trend of policy plagiarism or cut and paste …
https://www.amazon.com/RIP-GOP-America-Dooming-Republicans/dp/1250311756 Stanley Greenberg, the respected Democratic pollster, has seen enough in the data to suggest that the revenge of the ‘New America’ is just around the corner. And the evidence is in the blue wave of 2018 and the growing intensity of those who feel scorned, demoralized and bitter about the Trump era. His …
https://foreignpolicy.com/author/mark-perry/ The military has a recruitment problem that it doesn’t want to talk about. It’s an open secret that may be one of the nation’s great defense vulnerabilities going forward. Yet those who attribute it to long deployments, pay issues, methods of marketing to young people may all mask an even greater problem in society …