How to lose friends while winning admirers
A walk among men and a walk among rocks teach us the same thing: that a lack of motion is a powerful magnet for litter. Moss, insect remains, animal droppings, and foul spittle all accrue to the piece of rock that day after day will not move. But the moment it is set...
Kenyatta and the ICC: Which way out?
It has been a difficult two months for Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta and his colleague Vice President William Ruto. In October 2013, a motion in a summit of the African Union (AU) calling for the withdrawal of African countries en masse from the International...
Reason steers, faith moves
The world has long known that the clockwise roll of the wobbly wheel on which the fates and fortunes of men are borne depends much on the sway of faith and reason, the golden power couple of our universe. Reason steers that wheel, but it is faith alone that...
Nature’s instruction on leadership
The most revolutionary developments in civilization have all been deliberate or unwitting imitations of what already exists in nature. Flight, for example, was made possible by modeling gliding birds, and satellites were made possible by modeling planets in orbit....
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