Shortly after Barack Obama’s campaign launched its Fight the Smears website this month, Joe and I published a piece on Open Left that explored some of the difficulties in dispelling myths and offered ways to overcome them. I also provided some related advice here at hivethrive regarding the hurdles faced by entrepreneurs who challenge [...]

Joe and I recently wrote a piece called Jujitsu in Action - The Smart Way to Fight Smears Against Obama. In it, we reflected upon the Obama campaign’s new Fight The Smears website, and proposed what we argue would be a more effective way of responding to false allegations.
This approach is also relevant to [...]

I just watched an inspiring video that reminds me of what I know deep inside, that social change is a team effort. The old adage says that “change comes from within.” When the change is a societal transformation, this is a golden insight that captures something truly profound:
A society changes from within - [...]

Yesterday, I blogged about the presidential candidates’ responses to rising gas prices, focusing on how they reveal views of prosperity and the role of community. There was another interesting development in this debate yesterday, which A Siegel described on his blog.  He writes that many environmentalists have until recently viewed Clinton and Obama as having [...]

There has been much discussion of the presidential candidates’ proposals to address rising gas prices. I would like to examine a dimension of this debate that I haven’t yet seen explored: what the candidates’ messages express about their views of prosperity and its sources. The word “prosperity” might seem out of place in [...]