Everything is broken,
From a gash in the sky
To towers of freedom
Crumbling, to unspoken
Hatred now let free to fly.
As my thinking over the past seven years of running a nonprofit social enterprise has evolved, I have come to realize that the only way to effect social change at scale is to partner with the public sector, by which […]
“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” – Maya Angelou If they come for the Muslims, I shall be a Muslim; If they come for the immigrants, I shall be an immigrant; If they come […]
The fatal flaw is clear to those who look
(But o, we did not wish to look!):
To proclaim one thing but do another,
To promise riches and then plunder
The promise with a smile and a look
“Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities becomes irrelevant. Wherever men or women are […]
As the nation went insane
I hid behind outrage;
I gathered logic like kindling;
I laughed and shouted and shook my head;
As we move closer to the November presidential election Donald Trump’s comments are becoming more and more outlandish, irrational, and dangerous. I therefore am calling on all rational people to do everything they can to stop this demagogue in his tracks.
The shooting in Orlando has exposed a deep and underlying ugliness in America, one that is defined by partisanship, hatred, racism, and intolerance. Unfortunately, no political party has a monopoly on purity, and in this post I explore how the horrible massacre of 50 people in a night club speaks to a much bigger problem. I’m too much in shock and sadness to come to any conclusions, so don’t expect that from this post. View it instead as a rambling meditation on the present state of affairs.
One of the most pernicious attitudes about the nature of political leadership is that running a city, state, or even the whole nation is akin to being the CEO of a company, an attitude shared not only by free market-obsessed […]
Now that Donald Trump is the presumptive Republican candidate for president of the United States, it’s time to face the elephant in the room: those who voted for him must either be idiots, bigots, or both.