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Nov 15, 2023 | 
americanpurpose.com | Richard Aldous |Jay Weiser |Jeffrey Herf
You've successfully subscribed to American Purpose Great! Next, complete checkout for full access to American Purpose Welcome back! You've successfully signed in. Success! Your account is fully activated, you now have access to all content. The ambitious, larger-than-life character of Theodore Roosevelt is the stuff of legend. Outside of his connection with the League of Nations, much less is known about Roosevelt’s closest friend, Henry Cabot Lodge.
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Nov 15, 2023 | 
americanpurpose.com | Richard Aldous |Jay Weiser |Jeffrey Herf |Adam Gurri
When we talk about the administrative state—or the permanent bureaucracy or even the executive branch—it sounds formless, vast, impersonal. Critics of it tend to see it as an almost invisible force, a “deep state” performing its sinister machinations beneath the cover of the visible state. When I think of the problems of the administrative state, I think of the Littles, Malcolm X’s family whose plight is recounted in The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965).
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Nov 15, 2023 | 
americanpurpose.com | Richard Aldous |Jay Weiser |Jeffrey Herf |John Mac Ghlionn
Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Willby Robert M. Sapolsky (Penguin Press, 528 pp., $35)The novelist Isaac Bashevis Singer famously suggested that human civilization “must believe in free will—we have no choice.”Robert Sapolsky, a professor of biology and neurological sciences at Stanford University, begs to differ. The author of the aptly titled Determined: Life without Free Will, Sapolsky argues rather persuasively that none of us are free agents.
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Nov 8, 2023 | 
americanpurpose.com | Richard Aldous |Jay Weiser |Jeffrey Herf
You've successfully subscribed to American Purpose Great! Next, complete checkout for full access to American Purpose Welcome back! You've successfully signed in. Success! Your account is fully activated, you now have access to all content. Was there a moment after the Cold War when the United States “lost” Russia? Thomas Graham, senior director for Russia on the National Security Council under President George W.
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Nov 8, 2023 | 
americanpurpose.com | Richard Aldous |Jay Weiser |Jeffrey Herf
Looking back, future historians may see 2023 as the year when the idea of Europe’s “strategic autonomy” was given its definitive burial. Even with confrontations brewing globally between Western democracies and China, Iran, and Russia, Europeans have played a meaningful role only in the last one: assisting Ukraine financially, hosting Ukrainian refugees, and providing lethal aid to Kyiv.
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Nov 7, 2023 | 
americanpurpose.com | Richard Aldous |Jay Weiser |Jeffrey Herf |R. Jay Magill
If one were to distill a few common denominators from the horrific events of recent years—school and mass shootings, cars smashing through protestors, the Ukraine war, Hamas' attacks on Israeli citizens—one of them would be that many of the related scenes we see in the media have originated from videos made on personal digital devices.
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Oct 31, 2023 | 
americanpurpose.com | Richard Aldous |Jay Weiser |Jeffrey Herf |John Hamilton
Somewhere between the Espresso Martini and the Old Fashioned, on cocktail menus the globe over lies a remnant of World War I propaganda—the French 75. The Soixante Quinze (as the French call it), is a cocktail that initially contained gin, grenadine, lemon juice, and apple brandy, but also the hope and pride of a nation at war. It’s gone on to become the most elastic of cocktails, containing everything from the more traditional champagne to peach liqueur and curry-flavored gin.
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Oct 26, 2023 | 
americanpurpose.com | Richard Aldous |Jay Weiser |Jeffrey Herf
On October 18, 2023, Alsu Kurmasheva, a highly respected journalist and culture reporter for RFE/RL, was detained by Russian authorities in Kazan, 330 miles east of Moscow. She went from Prague this summer to visit her mother. She’s been blocked from leaving Russia since. A wife and mother herself of two young children, Alsu is now the second U.S. journalist to be detained in Russia after the Wall Street Journal’s Evan Gershkovich.
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Oct 9, 2023 | 
americanpurpose.com | Richard Aldous |Jay Weiser |Jeffrey Herf |Francis Fukuyama
The clown show on display in the U.S. House of Representatives this past month would be laughable if it did not have such serious implications for geopolitics and American leadership worldwide. A small group of right-wing extremists in the Republican Party—numbering less than a dozen legislators out of 435—has been holding the country’s budget processes hostage. They are doing this not for any achievable purpose, but simply to attract media attention and prove that they could be obstructive.
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Aug 16, 2023 | 
reworked.co | Jay Weiser
Superpowers are worthless if you don't know how to use them. In the previous article we explored how The Five Leadership Superpowers — the present futurist, the experienced leader, the prepared risk taker, the strategic executor and accountable collaborator — serve to ignite innovation. Now, we can discuss how to use these superpowers to create a virtuous cycle of innovation within your organization.
