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Finding American Democracy through Humanism and Radical Liberalism

August 17, 2020 By Guy St. Clair

A shorter version of what’s written below was published on Friday, August 14 in The New York Times, as a comment to This is Where I Stand, the opinion column from David Brooks: Thanks to President Barack Obama and two recent columns in The New York Times, I’m wondering if we aren’t finding (at last) a framework for how we …

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Filed Under: Current Events Tagged With: Brooks (David), Cohen (Roger), Harris (Kamala), Obama (Barack)

The Pandemic from an Academic Perspective

June 26, 2020 By Guy St. Clair

In these difficult times, it’s easy to fall into a trap, thinking about what’s happening as if it’s happening just in our own community or workplace. But isn’t there value in looking at the broader picture? Of course we’re reading the local newspapers, and some of us even try to catch up with what’s happening …

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Filed Under: Current Events Tagged With: Brooks (David), COVID-19, De Gruyter, Eisenberg (Merle), Global Health, Milne (Ida), Newman (Viv), Racism (Global), Racism (United States), Social Justice, Søvsø (Tue Emil Öhler), Zimmer (Thomas)

An Important Message from a Very Special Leader

June 4, 2020 By Guy St. Clair

“Sharing Guy’s Journey” is my personal blog, and I often refer to it that way, even when I’m writing about topics that are not particularly “personal.” In this case, that description couldn’t be more accurate. I have often written about my friendship with and my respect for Frances Hesselbein. Today she has shared a very …

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Filed Under: Current Events, Personal History Tagged With: COVID-19, Floyd (George), Frances Hesselbein Leadership Forum, Hesselbein (Frances)

Today in New York City

June 1, 2020 By Guy St. Clair

As our American society attempts to deal with the second of our two overwhelming crises, every citizen is experiencing nervousness, fear, uncertainty, and – not to make too fine a point of it – a certain level of surprise. How did we get to this point in our lives as American citizens? All the papers …

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Filed Under: Current Events, Personal History Tagged With: Fifth Avenue (New York), New York City, Protests (June 2020)

A Little Inspiration Perhaps

May 22, 2020 By Guy St. Clair

As we struggle with what’s happening all around us, from time to time we need a little inspiration. I recommend listening to two choral pieces. Both are pretty remarkable and speak to us – it seems to me – in our current situation. In the first, the Met Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, …

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Filed Under: Current Events, Music, Personal History, Uncategorized Tagged With: COVID-19, Metropolitan Opera Association, Nabucco (opera), Nézet-Séguin (Yannick), Verdi (Giuseppe)

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