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Setting aside the title, George Lakoff provides an interesting framework to explain fundamental differences between conservatives and liberals or progressives. Specifically, he introduces the idea of the Nurturant Parent family (progressive) and the Strict Father family (conservative). He also discusses the folly of considering demographics vs. worldview or values and how that relates to specific issues.

Author: George Lakoff | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, Politics & Public Policy, Trump

The world order we know is already over, and Russia is moving fast to grab the advantage. Can Trump figure out the new war in time to win it?

Author: Molly K. McKew | Source: Politico (January 1, 2017) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, Foreign Policy, International, Politics & Public Policy

In my cover story in the December issue of the magazine, on how the United States should prepare for the possibility of a more truculent and repressive China, I mention the concept of the “Thucydides Trap.” The article describes the implications:

This concept was popularized by the Harvard political scientist [and my one-time professor as an undergraduate] Graham Allison. Its premise is that through the 2,500

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Author: James Fallows | Source: The Atlantic (December 17, 2016) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, Politics & Public Policy, Trump

“The conservative and progressive worldviews dividing our country can most readily be understood in terms of moral worldviews that are encapsulated in two very different idealizations of family life: The Nurturant Parent family (progressive) and the Strict Father family (conservative).

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Many union members are strict fathers at home or in their private life. They believe in ‘traditional family values’ — a conservative code word — and … [ Read more ]

Author: George Lakoff | Source: The National Memo (November 27, 2016) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, Politics & Public Policy, Trump

The arguments being pushed by the Trump administration regarding tariffs and related restrictive trade policies are off the mark because they overlook two crucial issues, according to Wharton dean Geoffrey Garrett: “Rapid technological change coupled with economic stagnation have caused more of the pain felt in Middle America than free trade.” In this opinion piece, Garrett also notes that while free trade lowers the cost … [ Read more ]

Author: Geoffrey Garrett | Source: Knolwedge@Wharton (February 1, 2017) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Economics | Economy, Excerpts, International, Politics & Public Policy

Many scientists agree that the Earth seems warmer than in centuries past. But what is the cause? Part of a two-article series (Global Warming: Both Sides) on global warming examining both sides of the argument.

The debate about global warming has grown ever more intense in recent years and become as much political as it is scientific. There’s no doubt that Earth is warming— the … [ Read more ]

Author: Jack M. Hollander | Source: The Wilson Quarterly (Spring2003) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Environment | Sustainability, Excerpts, Politics & Public Policy

Two scientists present the evidence that greenhouse gases are causing the Earth’s warming. Part of a two-article series (Global Warming: Both Sides) on global warming examining both sides of the argument.

The debate about global warming has grown ever more intense in recent years and become as much political as it is scientific. There’s no doubt that Earth is warming— the scientific evidence shows that … [ Read more ]

Authors: Tim P. Barnett, V. Ramanathan | Source: The Wilson Quarterly (Spring2003) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Environment | Sustainability, Excerpts, Politics & Public Policy

Last week, six top State Department officials were suddenly discharged by the White House—an Undersecretary, an acting Undersecretary, and four Assistant Secretaries—without notice and without even a nominee selected to replace them. Tom Countryman, who served the nation for 35 years and at the time as Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Nonproliferation, was in Amman booked to fly to an international meeting … [ Read more ]

Authors: Ryan Goodman, Tom Countryman | Source: Just Security (February 3, 2017) | Subjects: America, Articles & Links, Excerpts, Foreign Policy, International, Politics & Public Policy

Healthcare is a huge part of the economy and has been a huge public policy issue and political problem for many years. After the election of 2016 the expectation was that full Republican control of government would lead to the repeal of Obamacare (Affordable Care Act) that the party had been championing since immediately after it became law. As of now that still hasn’t happened, … [ Read more ]

Subjects: Articles & Links, Health & Medicine, Politics & Public Policy

The bills before Congress get it wrong—what’s needed is incremental reform in a conservative direction.

Author: David Frum | Source: The Atlantic (June 30, 2017) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, Health & Medicine, Politics & Public Policy

The cost of health care in the United States is spiraling upward while politicians continue to bicker over how to fix a broken system. Elisabeth Rosenthal has a sweeping view of the problem because she has seen it from all sides. Rosenthal is a Harvard Medical School graduate who practiced emergency medicine before becoming a journalist. She covered health care and other topics for The … [ Read more ]

Author: Elisabeth Rosenthal | Source: Knolwedge@Wharton (June 2, 2017) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, Health & Medicine, Politics & Public Policy

The challenge of providing affordable, high-quality health care for all Americans is the subject of furious debate in the nation’s capital. University of Pennsylvania’s Ezekiel Emanuel, chair of the medical ethics and health policy department and a health care management professor at Wharton, helped craft the Affordable Care Act during the Obama administration. He puts forward some ideas for improving the system in his book, … [ Read more ]

Author: Ezekiel Emanuel | Source: Knolwedge@Wharton (June 22, 2017) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, Health & Medicine, Politics & Public Policy

It took a lot to get us here. […] I’d rely on the old sociological distinction between gemeinschaft and gesellschaft. All across the world, we have masses of voters who live in a world of gemeinschaft: where relationships are personal, organic and fused by particular affections. These people define their loyalty to community, faith and nation in personal, in-the-gut sort of ways.

But we have a … [ Read more ]

Author: David Brooks | Source: The New York Times (January 20, 2017) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, Politics & Public Policy, Trump

To many white Trump voters, the problem wasn’t her economic stance, but the larger vision—a multi-ethnic social democracy—that it was a part of.

Author: Derek Thompson | Source: The Atlantic (December 5, 2016) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, Politics & Public Policy

Conservatives are more likely to support issues like immigration and Obamacare if the message is “morally reframed” to suit their values.

Author: Olga Khazan | Source: The Atlantic (February 1, 2017) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Communication, Excerpts, Personal Improvement, Politics & Public Policy, Psychology | Behavior

We are creating an intelligence that is external to humans and housed in the virtual economy. This is bringing us into a new economic era—a distributive one—where different rules apply.

Author: W. Brian Arthur | Source: McKinsey Quarterly (October2017) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Economics | Economy, Excerpts, Politics & Public Policy

The influential economic theorist looks ahead to a world of virtually free energy and zero marginal cost production, and to a desperate race against climate change.

Authors: Art Kleiner, Jeremy Rifkin, Juliette Powell | Source: strategy+business (Winter2017) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Economics | Economy, Environment | Sustainability, Excerpts, History, Life & Society, Politics & Public Policy

Why is a donut shop pushing bananas? Perhaps profit margins are higher on the overpriced fruit. Or maybe the shop is attempting to proclaim its good corporate citizenship by providing an uncharacteristically nutritious snack. How you feel about this — whether you’re grateful to have been prompted to make a healthier choice or irritated that even a donut shop feels the need to try to … [ Read more ]

Authors: Cass Sunstein, Sally Helgesen | Source: strategy+business (Autumn2017) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Economics | Economy, Excerpts, Life & Society, Politics & Public Policy, Psychology | Behavior

Today’s economic and political upheavals reflect an ongoing misalignment between business and economies (on the one hand) and acceptable societal outcomes (on the other). There is still time to adjust, if we are willing to reexamine some long-held assumptions.

Authors: Blair Sheppard, Colm Kelly | Source: strategy+business (Autumn2017) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Economics | Economy, Excerpts, History, International, Life & Society, Politics & Public Policy

So that’s what we mean when we say America is exceptional. Not that our nation has been flawless from the start, but that we have shown the capacity to change, and make life better for those who follow.

Yes, our progress has been uneven. The work of democracy has always been hard, contentious and sometimes bloody. For every two steps forward, it often feels we take … [ Read more ]

Authors: Barack Obama, Darlene Superville, Josh Lederman | Source: PBS NewsHour (January 10, 2017) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, People, Politics & Public Policy