The Journal

2008

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    At the End of the Day

    … and when the rubber hits the road, cliches should be avoided like the plague…

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    Of All the Dumb Ideas

    The idea of using taxpayers’ money to bail out failing companies would have to be one of the worst. Let me see if I’ve got this right. The government is going to take money from companies…

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    What Were You Thinking?

    Before the US Presidential election I wrote a latter to the Editor of the New York Times as follows: Dear Editor, I note with interest your endorsement of Senator Obama for President. Senator Obama is a…

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    What Matters

    More than just kindness, whatever Jewel might say. What matters are the things that make us human – our capacity for relationships, for creativity, for hope, and our capacity for rational and purposeful investigation of the world around…