Rock Creek Frankly, part of the quest in reading is not only the search for knowledge, entertainment, and active resistance to boredom, but the hope of finding external confirmation for your own thinking and work. The first 325 pages of James C. Scott’s, Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance (Yale 1985) can be …
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Kristof and a Three Cups of Tea
Vicksburg I’ve read a couple of Nicholas Kristof’s books with interest over the years and used to read his column in the New York Times, but largely have abandoned them in recent years as I’ve done more international organizing. I’ve done so not because he’s exactly wrong on the issues, but it’s a matter …
Transitions: Tides Honors Drummond Pike
San Francisco It speaks to the very core and character of an institution – and its founder – when an institution can really honor the contributions of its founder and director for 34 years with class, confidence, conviction, and courage the way that the Tides Network of foundations, nonprofits, and sundry philanthropic enterprises did last …