Recently I commented on one of my favorite thinkers, Peter Drucker, who died late last year. More recently, I read a review essay by Adrian Wooldridge on Drucker’s thought as described in a new book on his life and was struck by the following fact: 7 of the 10 companies that have seen the biggest […]
Archives for 2007
It’s All about Celebrity
Media critic Brent Bozell calls it the “celebrity asylum”, and that’s a pretty apt description, for in this society increasingly driven by various degrees of voyeurism, the constant 24/7 media obsession with stories on the likes of Anna Nicole Smith and Britney Spears feeds an audience obviously fixated on lifestyles and behavior the attraction to […]
TIER Update
It has been almost a year since we announced the founding of the Texas Institute for Education Reform, and I thought you might have interest in a progress report. In December, we completed our statewide road show, which consisted of presentations and other speaking engagements to opinion and community leaders in 22 cities, along with […]
Texas Higher Education Overhaul
There have been a number of recent appeals to Texas policy makers from business-related groups such as the Governor’s Business Council and the Build Texas Program to overhaul the structure and enhance the accountability and funding of the State’s publicly assisted institutions of higher education. In addition, the leadership of the two flagship universities, UT-Austin […]
Whatever Happened to the Ownership Society?
“Americans want government to protect their current jobs and tell them where their next job, and their children’s jobs, will come from. But government is not good at that.”—Gene Sperling, former economic advisor to Bill Clinton. Rich Karlgaard writes in Forbes Magazine that, for all the angst about the war in Iraq reflected in the […]
Forbes for Treasury Secretary
For quite some time, Tom Friedman of the New York Times has been harping about the enormous subsidies that we are providing to our Middle Eastern Islamofascist and other enemies in the form of exorbitant oil prices that finance their worldwide terror activities and the armaments that are killing Americans in Iraq, not to mention […]
New Year Potpourri
Events and currents overwhelm, and much has happened since the last issue, so here’s a quick survey of a few that caught my attention: The War: The Iraq Study Group report was nearly worthless as a strategy document, an embarrassment, but the situation on the ground there combined with the unfortunate condition of attitudes at […]
Presidential Resolutions
All the cuddly overtures in the spirit of bipartisanship on the part of the new majority that permeated the immediate post-election period will dissolve before the swearing in of the 110th Congress. In fact, most of that talk is disingenuous in the first place, because bipartisanship in the current usage only means one thing—you must […]
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