Recently I read some stimulating pieces that I’d like to share with you, the first of which was written by economist James K. Galbraith as a statement before the U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Financial Services.  (Full statement, click here.)  I believe Mr. Galbraith really hits his stride in section number three, titled: “The [...]

I recently came across the following article on a de-centralized United States in the Wall Street Journal by author Paul Starobin. First of all, it was fascinating to find this kind of piece in the Journal, though it speaks to the article’s point that the desire for a more distributed, place-based political life is of growing [...]

Tsering is the name of the Tibetan Buddhist monk who greeted our ragged group of high school students at the Delhi train station.  Tsering had traveled 15 hours overnight from Dharamsala by public bus to meet us and ride right back up to Dharamsala with us.  We had just finished our own 16 hour overnight [...]