This lecture was delivered as the 2016 Dorsett Fellow Lecture at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, January 21, 2016 What will 2015 be remembered for? The image that comes to mind is “rising fences.” If we took a satellite photo of the planet, that would be the story;...
This piece was written for the International New York Times Athens Democracy Forum, September 13-15, 2015. Carnegie Council was proud to be a co-sponsor of this Forum. Myths give meaning to our lives. They are stories created to explain the human condition—creation,...
This talk was presented on February 24, 2012, at the University of Utah’s Sixth Annual International Conference on Human Rights, Conflict Resolution, Nonviolence and Peace. The concept of “common good” is especially appealing because it is consistent with realism. By...
The day after the Moore, Oklahoma tornado of 2013, a single image dominated media coverage: a photo of the two-foot thick concrete and steel bank vault of the Tinker Federal Credit Union. The vault was the only thing left standing on a flattened city block. Twenty-two...
This is a longer version of an an op-ed that ran in the Mercury News (Silicon Valley, California) on February 11 (print version), entitled “Saddam’s pistol, Ike’s speeches and the ethics of gun ownership.” In the current debate over gun regulation a simple point is...
These reflections on the Carnegie Council Centennial theme were published August 31, 2011. A hundred years ago Andrew Carnegie thought that world politics was about to change forever. War would be abolished. Just as private war in the form of dueling had passed from...
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