Feb 26, 2021
What Comes Next? Without thinking about it last week, I found myself whistling a tune after we finished our Emerging Issues Forum. I know the whistling was partly relief —…
Jan 29, 2021
What Is This Glorious Mysterious Thing? One of the oldest stories in folklore is the tale of the blind men and the elephant. Each of them feels a different part…
Dec 16, 2020
What’s Normal? This is the season when we traditionally find the identity of the “Time Person of the Year,” the People Magazine “People of the Year,” the Sports Illustrated “Sportsperson…
Nov 24, 2020
Finding the Hope in this Charlie Brown Christmas Tree Holiday Season In the middle of the outrage about the election and resurging pandemic, another outrage bubbled quietly. Apple TV bought…
Oct 30, 2020
Whack-A-Mole and Mental Health Every time we think we are seeing the beginning of the end of COVID-19, there’s a new wrinkle that reminds us we may not even be…
Sep 29, 2020
What Needs Changing When Everything’s Changing At the start of our September 24 webinar on “Higher Education and the Future of Work,” Hope Williams, President of North Carolina’s Independent Colleges…
Aug 28, 2020
A Few Sips from an Oasis of Optimism If we are to believe the predictions, we are heading toward a 10 week napalming of negative campaign ads: from radio and…
Jul 30, 2020
Lifting Up the Laboratories of Democracy The past twenty years have given all of us a steady set of reminders of what it means to live interconnected and interdependent in…
Jun 29, 2020
A Declaration of Interdependence A lot of people have been doing a lot of thinking about freedom and independence in the past month. It is the issue of the moment.…
May 29, 2020
Grieving Together Over the past 10 weeks, the Institute for Emerging Issues has been talking with our statewide and local partners to try to understand this confusing crisis we are…