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  • What We Get Wrong About Pursuing Equal Outcomes

    What We Get Wrong About Pursuing Equal Outcomes0

    What happens when you suggest that someone’s failure to get something they believe they deserve is due to widespread – even systemic – maliciousness? Social malfunction. African American economist Thomas Sowell, in Discrimination and Disparities, puts it this way: Those who seem to be promising an end to existing group disparities, as a result of

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  • The Will to Power: Welcome to Our New Paradigm

    The Will to Power: Welcome to Our New Paradigm0

    We are passing from the modern age to the postmodern age. If the modern age rested upon the idea of objective truths with reason as our guide, the postmodern age rests upon the rejection of the objective and the embracing of the personal, the belief that truth is relative to the individual.   Nietzsche gave

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  • What SEALs and Caesar Teach About Slowing Down

    What SEALs and Caesar Teach About Slowing Down0

    With the exception of some entomologists, few people are fans of cockroaches. We may admire the beauty of a butterfly, the industry of an ant, and the intricacy of a spider’s web, but show us a cockroach, and we’re ready to roll up that magazine we’re reading and swat away.  In 1975, I rented a

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  • Middle-Aged Men Are Part of the Loneliness Epidemic, Too

    Middle-Aged Men Are Part of the Loneliness Epidemic, Too0

    Chronic loneliness is an increasing concern, and apparently not just among the elderly and social-media crazed millennials.  A recently released YouGov survey finds that almost one in five men in the UK say that they have no close friends.  The findings also show that men generally lead more solitary lives than women, who appear to be better at

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  • How This Entrepreneur Went From Door Man to Running a Three Billion Dollar Hotel Empire

    How This Entrepreneur Went From Door Man to Running a Three Billion Dollar Hotel Empire1

    Alan Fuerstman is the embodiment of the American Dream. He’s the founder of Montage Hotels & Resorts, a California-based luxury hotel and resort company that has a portfolio of $3 billion. He was listed on the Haute 100, received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award, serves on advisory boards, and gives back

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  • Downton Abbey: Making Goodness Fashionable

    Downton Abbey: Making Goodness Fashionable0

    Downton Abbey stunned the film industry this month by pulling in over $31 million at the box office opening weekend, exceeding forecasts by more than 50 percent and making it the largest opening in distributor Focus Features’ history. Clearly the lives and times of the Crawley family and their servants have not lost their appeal

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