There are times when all one can do is remark at the rareness of freedom. For so long I have taken it for granted. But the more history I re...

In the last few years, I've tried to bring forth timely topics that currently affect the architectural profession. From writing about su...

This past election put two different personalities and two different generations on a stage for all to see. On the one hand was the old-scho...

As a simple intellectual exercise, I’d like to quibble about semantics. Just in case your ears didn’t perk when Barrack Obama said the above...

I have the good fortune of being married to someone who spent several years of her life growing up in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. This is good...

Agitate. That’s the key word to understanding what I’ll call classical community organizing. “Community Organizing” is a relatively generic ...

Four months in the making, Podcast #5 is here.

The fact that “reality television” has taken over primetime airwaves isn’t a comment on how much television has changed, but a reflection on...

After countless months of delay, I got around to watching the recent German award-winning film, The Lives of Others . Relievedebtor had alre...

In this current period of global economic unease, the ever enduring undercurrent of American declinism rears its ugly head. Decade after dec...

There was a time when people aspired to higher things: ways of thinking, manners, and even food. If this podcast is to be believed, those w...

In social situations there is often a tendency to tie the personality of individuals to their job. It is not uncommon to hear of someone bei...