Habit is not the same as tradition
We need to talk about what we're really talking about when we talk about the filibuster: our desperate need for our leaders to govern.
Last updated: 23 Jan 2025
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Our search for leadership
How we look for leadership matters. Replacing Sen. Schumer as the Senate minority leader might be warranted (even needed) but isn't the right answer to the right question we should be asking about the leadership we need right now.
Slouching toward a zero-context culture
We are headed down an AI-accelerated path toward hyper-efficient society and teams that lack the openness, freedom, and creativity of high-context cultures.
The Nine Revolutions of Democracy
How Micah Bornfree's Unified Theory of Revolution combined with a dimension of time might could help us make sense of the work confronting us and keep us moving toward the nation we need.
The Supreme Court as culturemaker
The highest court in the land not only decides our most fundamental constitutional questions, their power to choose which cases they hear at all fundamentally shapes our civic culture and discourse in largely silent ways.