The Horizontal Imperative

Immanuel Kant’s moral philosophy was summed up in his “categorical imperative:”   Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become…

The January Top 5

In order of popularity, they were: A Better New Year's Resolution - strictly speaking a December post, the suggestion that instead of making a list of resolutions for the new…

Trust, Democracy, and Capitalism

One business page, Sunday NYTimes. Two articles. Two distinct visions of our future. Andrew Sorkin’s “A Growing Aversion to Ticker Symbols” describes the seeming tsunami of private equity money creating…