January 2010
1 post
Leadership: an economical model and sociological...
“All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common; it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.” – John Kenneth Galbraith John K. Galbraith’s statement about leadership, that all great leaders essentially address the concern of their group’s greatest...
November 2009
2 posts
The College Information War
Every year in the United States seniors in high school begin filling out forms and writing essays for their undergraduate applications. The process has been historically increasing in complexity with time. Today it is so hard to understand that there are entire industries based around manipulating applicants by offering help or preparation. Generally it is a pervasive problem with few exceptions,...
A Note On Objectivism
Objectivism is a philosophical framework conceived and developed by Ayn Rand, a contentious but popularly-acclaimed Russian economist, philosopher, and novelist. Ayn Rand was a hyper-logical thinker, believing strongly in the process of identifying and analyzing assumptions and debating from that point on. Famously she would start conversations with, “What are your assumptions?”...
September 2009
2 posts
Prose and Verse
I realized something today that I’ve refound an appreciation that schooling had taken away from me. I always loved philosophy, especially its prolonged meandering arguments. This love introduced me to the first essays I read. Essays were my favorite pieces of writing before high school, but after three years of formulaic headbashing cleverly marketed as “learning the standards”: MLA, thesises, and...
Democracy, Economy and the Media
Media has long been considered the de facto “fourth branch of government”, and economy has been the driving issue in countless elections—and yet we somehow refuse to take the lessons we have learned in creating democratic society and apply them.
Economically, we’re in the worst rut since the Great Depression. The government is talking about re-regulation, but there is no...