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Good and the Disease of Insatiable Wealth
Dr. David Lay Williams is a professor of political science who studies the role of economic inequality in the history of political thought. He wrote the following quote as a guest writer in the New York Times addressing ancient concerns… Continue reading
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Good, Human Connection, and Social Capital
What is Social Capital? Is it the ultimate expression of capitalism, or is it an organic dimension of universal human development and thriving? Let’s start with the idea off social capital as a misnomer. Poor people, and I mean desperately… Continue reading
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Good, the 20th Century “Magna Carta” for the World and the Child in America
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was passed by the United Nations in 1948. That Declaration has been described as the Magna Carta of the Twentieth Century. The quote below is taken from the Convention on the Rights of the Child which… Continue reading
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Good and Washington’s Resignation: A Moral Lesson Forgotten
Heather Cox Richardson, in her Letters From an American, a model column writer for all writers summarized beautifully the Revolutionary War that brought our country into being . Here is a direct quote from the that column in her June… Continue reading
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Good, Children Living in the Lions Den While Parents Worry about Freedom
As a writer who communicates through the internet, my sense of that network’s value is extremely ambiguous. As a parent and grandparent though my feelings are far less ambiguous. The internet is an extremely aggressive environment full of snares and… Continue reading
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Good, Universal Moral Distress, and a Wide Diverse World
I was informed by the website provider that this project called The Good Decision has just passed being viewed in 50 plus nations. This comes as a surprise for as you may know as a reader, this is a pretty… Continue reading
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Good, Wise Humor and Lowway Robbery
“A billion here and a billion there and pretty soon you are talking about real money” “I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.” Everett Dirksen former US… Continue reading
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Good and Titrating Shame for Oneself and a Nation
In making good decisions, an important indicator that the next move you are making is going to be harmful or at least bad for you and most likely others is the sense of shame. Shame, like anger is a short… Continue reading
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Good, leadership and the Chains of Retribution
If we could read the secret history of our enemies we would like to punish we would find in each life a sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all our hostility. Henry. Wadsworth Longfellow as quoted by Magaret Wheatley in… Continue reading
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Good and What We Want to be True
Truth is not what we want it to be, but rather what it is. In an esoteric discussion of black holes, David Kaiser a professor of physics and science at M.I.T. made an elegant summary of their discussion of science… Continue reading
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