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What happens when leaders think about themselves, and not their responsibilities
Amyiah Cohoon did everything right: She cut her spring break at Disney World short in early March, as the virus …
Public trust and leaders who deserve it
The best generals rely on their platoon leaders and junior officers to succeed. The same goes for resistance to a deadly pathogen. Leadership – and followership – must develop locally from the bottom up.
“We’re here from the government, and we’re here to help.”
Perhaps we believe earthly powers offer the most protection we will ever find.
Public trust and leaders who deserve it
Top-down control does not work even in the army, let alone in public health. The best armies are led from the bottom, not from the top. The same goes for resistance to a deadly pathogen. Leadership – and followership – has to develop locally.
Leadership during a pandemic
These tools of social pressure are the opposite of leadership. Leaders do not pressure, denounce, and coerce. Leaders open the way.
Strongmen in America’s political culture
Our public school history books tend to recognize our presidents through a filter that favors strongmen: the stronger the better.
Another phony leader
We have sycophancy on the media’s dance floor again. Perhaps I read the wrong headlines, but I see the press …
Radical vision
Where is the George F. Kennan of our generation? Where is the person who accurately describes our enemy, then draws from the description the proper conclusions about the best way to defeat it? We flounder somewhat aimlessly in the bush right now, and I don’t see wise individuals to guide us back to the right road.
NSA to Angela Merkel: “You’ve become a public distraction”
Now Angela Merkel discovers Washington set up a listening post in Berlin to monitor her cell phone. How brazen can you …
Is the Future Ours, or Will We Perish?
What do we need to remain optimistic about the future? We need good leadership. The wonderful story about the trapped …
The Trap of Partisan Politics
From time to time President Obama sounds a theme of unity and teamwork. He says in a speech that we …
The Jeffersonian 