Financial crises are a lot like childbirth - they both involve a lot of
pain and end up costing you a lot of money. Of course, with childbirth
you at least get something positive out of it.
LONDON - At a lunch in the crypt at St. Paul's Cathedral before the
Dalai Lama received the Templeton Prize on Monday, I was seated next to
Canon Mark Oakley.
We live in a world facing multiple crises, many set in motion by factors
beyond our individual control. For me personally, the biggest step was
realizing that fearlessness is not the absence of fear, but the mastery
of fear.
Wednesday was a big anniversary - one year since the day Osama bin Laden
was killed in Pakistan. The administration has every reason to
celebrate, as does the country.
Our culture has a way of collectively falling into the groove of
conventional wisdom, whether that means seeing everything through the
outdated prism of left vs. right, or willfully blinding ourselves to
unpleasant or inconvenient facts.
Just over two years ago, I spoke at a conference commemorating the 25th
anniversary of the Internet designation ". At the time, I was just
thinking out loud.