Attempting to rewrite the paradigm of race
With the brutal murder of George Floyd and the eruption of global society into weeks, and perhaps months, or more, of protest, we are...
- May 26, 2020
- 5 min
WFH and Remote Learning: Paradigm Busters or Pandemic Reveal?
Since the COVID-19 outbreak and the rapid pivot required in both these arenas to more virtual ways of working and learning, we've seen...
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- May 4, 2020
- 2 min
A remote thank-you, mental health professionals
May is Mental Health Month. While it has always seemed odd to me to designate a day or month to what we know needs attention every day,...
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- Mar 5, 2019
- 3 min
In these paradigms we do bust
Of all the paradigms I've been looking at over the past couple of years, the one closest to my heart, and head, that of age and wisdom,...
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- Jun 27, 2018
- 4 min
The paradigm of American identity
It's been a while since I've addressed any messed-up paradigms here, but the most recent disclosures around tender-aged, under-aged,...
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- Jan 10, 2018
- 9 min
Arguing for Social Impact
This quote from Elie Wiesel’s 1986 Nobel Prize acceptance speech, displayed in the window of our local JCC, gave me pause this past Fall....
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- Dec 5, 2017
- 8 min
Slouching Towards Bethlehem Again
Today’s real news reads like fiction, and both the satire of an Andy Borowitz headline and a Seth Meyers “Closer Look” segment read and...
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- Nov 7, 2017
- 5 min
Crowdsourcing Our Angst
This is a message from the Berklee College of Music. There has been a shooting in the vicinity of Massachusetts Avenue and Boylston...
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- Oct 24, 2017
- 8 min
Giving Voice to Changing Paradigms
Paradigm shifts are occurring in many areas of society, from how we think about education to how we define gender, from models of...
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- Oct 5, 2017
- 5 min
Counting Doesn't Account for Enough When It Comes to Gun Violence
A New York Times editorial 477 Days. 521 Mass Shootings. Zero Action from Congress presents a straightforward accounting of the past year...
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