Leadership and Business
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A Sovereign Alberta Within a United Canada? When Political Language Conceals More Than It Says.
Political language does more than decorate policy. It helps citizens understand what kind of world they are being asked to inhabit. When language clarifies, citizens can judge. When language blurs, citizens may still feel oriented, but the orientation is emotional before it is truthful. They know where they are supposed to stand before they know… Continue reading
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Authorship, AI, and the Responsibility to Answer for What We Write
Don’t refuse every tool; refuse to become one. Continue reading
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Consumerism, or Consumption, of Self
I still think about an encounter I once had with Rosie, a young woman who appeared at my door in the middle of the night. What stayed with me was not merely the strangeness of the situation, but the unmediated quality of it. There was no audience, no profile, no performance, no curated identity. There… Continue reading
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The Most Important Educational Technology: The Small Group
What if the most powerful educational technology available to us right now is not artificial intelligence, adaptive software, predictive analytics, or the next digital learning platform? What if the most powerful educational technology is still the human small group? Continue reading
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Desire: Curated Before Noticed
A person begins forgetting what it feels like to encounter reality without immediately filtering it through visibility, aspiration, anxiety, or comparison. Silence becomes difficult. Boredom becomes intolerable. Ordinary life begins to feel insufficient unless it can be translated into something shareable, admirable, or meaningful to others. Continue reading
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Value Beyond Money: 5 Places to Find It
The question is not whether we believe in value beyond money. It is whether we are willing to take it seriously. Continue reading
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The Innocence That Kills: American Exceptionalism as Spiritual Pathology
The pattern is not incidental. It is structural. Each act of civilizational harm is metabolized by the myth of exceptionalism and converted into evidence of American seriousness, American resolve, American willingness to bear the weight of world-historical responsibility. The victims become, at best, unfortunate costs. The perpetrators remain, in their own self-understanding, the good guys. Continue reading
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The QuestionS of Wars: Why Every War Asks the World Different Moral Questions
When a war begins, people often hear the same moral demand. You cannot remain neutral. You must choose a side. The statement sounds principled and urgent, and in moments of violence it can feel persuasive. Yet it is also misleading. Having lived in Saudi Arabia, and being exposed to both their value for increased wealth… Continue reading
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Arendt Reconsidered Zionism
Arendt believed she had identified a governing logic: the pursuit of security through domination, reliance on imperial sponsorship, and the presumption that conflict is eternal and unsolvable. In her view, this logic would entrench rather than resolve hostility. Continue reading
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Love and Christian Nationalism
I am not a Christian nationalist. But neither am I comfortable with the reflex to sneer at those who are. That reflex reveals something troubling about our age: we no longer know how to disagree without attempting to destroy. The word “debate” increasingly feels like a ritual of denunciation. The goal is not persuasion, but… Continue reading