Category: Book Content

  • After putting together the slide deck for my Town Hall talk this coming Wednesday (which I’ll post here later today), I decided to use it as the outline for the first chapter of the book. Increasingly wary of my propensity to get digitally distracted (and thereby overwhelmed by the task at hand), I kept my computer at…

  • I’m presently revisiting the excellent Bill Moyers’ PBS interviews with Joseph Campbell. I typically rely on Campbell and Aristotle to discuss the importance of storytelling structure — and how in that structure, we reveal the universal appeal of story itself.  I just discovered this interesting interchange: Campbell: What all the myths have to deal with…

  • Do Americans distrust their powerful institutions more than ever?  And what impact does this distrust have on our lives? This sentiment was a powerful underlying theme to our Independent America film — that we have lost faith in government and corporations after Enron, Iraq, Katrina.  And it has to be a central component of my…