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I haven’t written a blog post in a few weeks because I’ve been obsessing about two things that did not seem to have a lot to do with each other until I…
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My wife and I spent last weekend in Columbia SC, attending a workshop on dot connecting and bridge building initiatives in that surprisingly lively city…
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February 2023

I normally use these posts to write about something I’ve recently discovered that might make my readers think about an issue in the news or a…
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Last Saturday, I was asked to consider dilemmas that were perplexing two of my friends. Once I thought about them, I realized that I faced a third and…
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January 2023

As regular readers know, I’ve been working on a book about connecting the political dots for the last year or so. As regular readers don’t know, the…
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I stopped making New Year’s Resolutions decades ago for one simple reason. I never kept them. In fact, I came close to breaking the Guinness Book of…
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December 2022

As last week drew to a close, I wasn’t planning to write another blog post in 2022. Then, my wife and I were asked to attend the annual gathering of the…
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My job as Senior Fellow for Innovation at the Alliance for Peacebuilding is a delight in part because I made it up myself and it doesn’t have a job…
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In my last post. I wrote about the first of two takeaways I drew from Christopher Blattman’s stunningly good, Why We Fight. As was the case then when I…
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November 2022

This will be the first of two blog posts inspired by Christopher Blattman’s powerful new book, Why We Fight. Neither post is meant to be a review of the…
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October 2022

Blog post writers are supposed to avoid long titles. And confusing titles. I failed on both fronts this week because recent events have finally forced…
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Although I’ve never admitted it in public (until now, that is), I am a longtime AJ Jacobs fan. He’s a quirky man who writes quirky books about quirky…
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