Tag: Jeffrey DeGraff

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Feb 14, 2012 A Capital Idea The causes of poverty have long vexed scholar and practitioner alike. Read More

Feb 1, 2012 Youtopia is Nowheresville “Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.” Read More

Jan 25, 2012 A Waldorf Salad Nineteenth Century social innovator, mystic and eclecticist extraordinaire Rudolf Steiner sought to synthesize the entirety of science and spirituality through a new approach he called Anthroposophy. Read More

Jan 16, 2012 Deconstruct to Reconstruct No single thing abides; but all things flow. Read More

Jan 11, 2012 The Most American Thing In America While perfection is praised in most cultures where the steady hand paints the smooth line and polishes the shinning gear, there are some that value novelty instead. Read More

Jan 3, 2012 Customize the Contradictions “Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.” Read More

Dec 19, 2011 The Leading Lady Corazon Aquino’s ascent to the presidency of the Philippines reads like something out of Shakespeare where heroines “have greatness thrust upon ’em.” Read More

Dec 12, 2011 Look For the Signs to the On and Off Ramps “We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Read More

Dec 5, 2011 It’s Not Nice to Fool Mother Nature Many believe the American Environmental Movement had an unlikely start in 1962 with the publication of The Silent Spring written by a marine biologist named Rachel Carson. Read More

Nov 30, 2011 Think in Terms of Cycles; Not Lines “To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.” Read More

Nov 22, 2011 Wrong Way Columbus Most school children know the story of the First Voyage of Christopher Columbus though its interpretation now ranges anywhere from the triumph of the spirit to persevere in the Age of Discovery to some corrupt form of economic plundering in the Age of Imperialism. Read More

Nov 11, 2011 Hedge First, Optimize Later “Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.” Read More