Posts that have direct tie-ins to current front burner issues. Anything we include will also have long-term, big picture significance. Either the issue itself or the underlying learning the post reflects should have as much or more pertinence ten years from now as it has today.
Physicist Stephen Hawking recently proposed that artificial intelligence, as it comes to ever more exceed the processing speed of human intelligence, will, with time, be our undoing. Others, including Tesla’s Elon Musk have seconded the warning. Are the dangers as … Read More
Confronting terrorism is an arena in which the modern West can and must apply culturally mature leadership. A culturally mature response to terrorism, executed well, results not just in effective defense policy, but a modeling of mature and creative leadership … Read More
Trust in leadership of all sorts today is less than it was at the height of anti-authoritarian rhetoric in the 1960s. We could easily assume—and people have argued—that this modern lack of confidence in leadership reflects something gone terribly wrong—broad … Read More
The emotional vitriol we’ve witnessed in recent years in the health care delivery debate has startled both politicians and the press. In fact it was totally predicted. Effective and affordable health care in times ahead will require a whole new … Read More
With this year’a marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton it washard not to be caught up in the romance. Numerous commentators have expressed gratitude that we finally have something positive in the news. But it also provided a moment … Read More
A key theme in Cultural Maturity’s “growing up” is a newfound ability to step beyond ideological easy answers. If we think in terms of dangerous consequences, the most dramatic example concerns our past propensity to divide humanity into “chosen people” … Read More