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The cap­tion reads: “Food will win the war — You came here seek­ing free­dom, now you must help to pre­serve it — Wheat is needed for the allies — waste noth­ing.” I imag­ine some­one in a cen­tral office in Wash­ing­ton look­ing at sta­tis­tics for immi­gra­tion in 1916, while pogroms raged across Europe, say­ing, “We won’t be […]

Some­times you type the begin­ning of a query into Google search and as the sug­gested terms appear under the box you get pulled into the zeit­geist like Alice fell into the look­ing glass. I was look­ing for a global demo­graphic info bit and typed “per­cent­age of” into Google. The fol­low­ing list appeared as sug­ges­tions: Per­cent­age of […]

Weak peo­ple project weak­ness on every­one around them. Fright­ened peo­ple project fear on every­one around them. Strong peo­ple can’t under­stand what all the fuss is about.

Regard­less of where you stand on the pro­posed health care leg­is­la­tion (if you can fig­ure it out!), the drama around Pres­i­dent Obama’s speech tonight was stir­ring. A young pres­i­dent with an ambi­tious agenda, stand­ing before a divided Con­gress, on national tele­vi­sion, lay­ing out the pur­pose and logic of his pro­posal. The stakes were high, the […]