Once again David Brooks has written an interesting, offbeat Op Ed in the Feb 5, 2010, New York Times entitled The Sporting Mind. Highly recommended.
It is worth pondering what keeps a nation as disparate as ours, drawn from all corners of the earth, supporting a massive variety of religions, political views, cultural outlooks and world views, from simply falling apart. It is truly a remarkable feat, not widely emulated elsewhere on the globe.
Thoughts and observations about the world condition.
See also the annotated book list on the sidebar at the right, as well as the YouTube Lecture list
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