This is the West's last chance — to rebuild trust, restore peace, and secure international rules and cooperation for a generation to come. Let's hope the world is listening. (3/3)
My not-small task was to help a very busy sitting President crystallize his three decades of diplomatic experience and his vision for a stable global future into a cool and compelling 200 pages. (2/3) ...
Out today! I edited this book with and for Alex Stubb, President of Finland, whose savvy diplomacy and clear thinking have put him at the center of Ukraine peace negotiations and in fruitful conversations with leaders from Emmanuel Macron to Donald Trump to Xi Jinping. (1/3) ...
I had the honor of speaking with Jane Goodall and writing this essay for her in her voice. I can't think of a person I admire more or whose moral clarity, kindness, and unwavering humanity we need more. Let us carry it forward. (2/2)
"This is what I want every child to understand: Your life matters. You can't live through a day without making an impact on the world. What's most important is to think about the impact of your actions on the world... And that message is not just for youth -- that's for everyone." (1/2)
I haven't but will check that out!
A little light reading: research for the book I've been writing for the last 10 years. Almost done! Any titles you would add?
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Thank you, Bono, for one of the most humane, balanced, humble, broadly compassionate reflections on the Israel-Hamas conflict that I've read. Israel does indeed face an existential threat, but not from starving civilians in Gaza. No ends justify these means.
If this is how federal agents treat a U.S. Senator asking a question at a press conference, how will they treat you?
Proof that policy matters: In states with looser gun laws, more children die by guns. New data analyzed over 13 years: www.massgeneralbrigham.org/en/about/new...
Go ahead and eat your blueberries. And ask yourself, at the same time, how you will resist making your own small mistakes.
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The 60-year-old American Conservatory Theater observed, "At its best, the NEA affirms that access to the arts is not a luxury, but a national value—essential to civic dialogue, education, and a vibrant democracy."
These are the age-old tools of autocrats, from Stalin to Franco to Hitler to Mao. He who controls what we see and hear, and who can speak, controls what we believe. And ultimately what we do.
The cutting of national arts funding is not a Holocaust. But it is — along with the terrorizing of dissenters, the purging of government, and the vilifying and scapegoating of immigrants and anyone different — a step towards the annihilation of diverse thought.
A message from the play that won't leave me is that great national mistakes are made of many, many small mistakes, made by each of us.
When the heinous job is broken into so many separate, small parts that every participant feels shielded from responsibility for the outcome. When the context allows and encourages them to narrow their frame of vision, to see only what's comfortable and crop out the horror.
The play presented an array of possible answers to those questions, all of which are true at the same time. People participate in atrocities when the messages around them, from family, friends, and leaders, assert that they are part of a bigger mission, something important enough to sacrifice for.
The greatest power of the play was the question it forced us all to contend with: how can ordinary, decent people do horrific things? And how might we ourselves be vulnerable to doing the same?
There, yards away from the biggest human killing center in history, guards, commanders, doctors, secretaries, and typists frolicked, flirted, played music, lounged at a summer chalet, threw Christmas parties for their children, and, yes, ate blueberries as a reward for work well done.
At the moment I received the emails, I happened to be on my way to see a stunning documentary play, "Here There Are Blueberries," at one of the theaters facing cuts: 57-year-old #BerkeleyRep. The play traces the revelations found in a photo album depicting daily life among the staff at Auschwitz.
