Why did Donald Trump win the presidential election? And why was voter turn-out so low?
Disgust with Senator Hillary Clinton? Check. Irritation with DC gridlock? Check. Gender and race bias? Check. General unease about the direction in which the United States is heading? Check.
But the main reason, I believe, is that most of us fear and loath big bureaucracies.
The Tea Party’s primary energy source was the overreaching federal bureaucracy, while Occupy Wall Street focused its wrath on the…..
“How do you memorize the music that choir directors throw your way even though you’re blind?” many people have asked me with awe in their voices.
I never quite know how to answer questions like these, as I don’t think what I do is particularly awe-inspiring or interesting. I usually try to deflect the question with humor while promising to write about it in a future blog post.
So how do I remember all that music?
When I started singing…..
Over the years, activists of all stripes have used George Orwell’s “1984” to brand those with whom they disagree as “Big Brother.” But I have found Orwell’s “Animal Farm” to be more disturbing.
While reading the book for the first time in seventh grade, I was thrilled when animals of a farm banded together to overthrow the reign of greedy, incompetent humans who owned it and how the animals, under the direction of the pigs, began to forge a better…..
The day after Donald Trump was promoted to President-Elect of the United States, I took part in an hour-long podcast during which the host, Joe Weidinger, asked me a variety of quirky questions. I did pretty well until he asked:
“What is the first thing you would do if you ruled the world?”
After some stuttering starts, I mumbled something about doing lots of listening.
I later remembered that most high-level leaders set boundaries to structure their listening through what…..