The growing disconnect between universities, employers and the future of work Something is wrong with the way we prepare young people for work. We tell them to study hard. We tell them that education is the safest route to opportunity. We encourage them to spend years earning qualifications. Then, after graduation, many encounter employers asking…
The Real Danger Is Not That Artificial Intelligence Takes Every Job, but That It Makes Opportunity Even More Unequal Two Young People Wake Up to the Same Technology Imagine two 22-year-olds beginning their day. The first opens a laptop in a comfortable apartment near a major American city. She has a university degree, reliable high-speed…
What the Fallen Still Ask of America Memorial Day feels different this year. Perhaps it is because America is preparing to celebrate 250 years of independence while simultaneously wrestling with political division, institutional strain, leadership fatigue, and growing uncertainty about the country’s future. Perhaps it is because the world itself feels unstable again. Or perhaps…
Why Our Ideas of Freedom Are Shaped by Culture, Policy, and Lived Experience There was a time when I thought freedom meant roughly the same thing everywhere. That assumption didn’t survive travel, work, or experience. The more I moved across different societies and worked within different systems, the more I realized that freedom is not…
A Milestone That Feels Uneven As the United States approaches 250 years of independence, the natural instinct is to celebrate endurance, power, and achievement. But when I look at the country today, I find myself asking a different question. What does it actually feel like to live in America right now, and is that experience…
As the United States approaches 250 years, the real question may no longer be how we govern—but how we believe Where My Thinking Started Over the past year, much of my work has focused on governance. I have spent time examining the presidency, the structure of decision-making, and the limits of leadership in a system…
One of the most common criticisms of government today is that it is too slow. Too slow to respond. Too slow to act. Too slow to solve problems. But this perception is not simply about inefficiency. It reflects a deeper structural issue within democratic governance. The Acceleration of Modern Life and Economic Systems Modern life…
There is a widening gap in American life that rarely announces itself directly, yet shapes how citizens experience government every day. It is not simply a matter of disagreement or partisanship. It is something deeper—a growing distance between how government operates and how people live. For many Americans, government feels both omnipresent and absent at…