by Michael Freedman | Aug 28, 2024 | The Public Square Academy, VLOG
The Public Square Academy invites you to consider becoming a member of our Learning and Action community. In the Academy of Access to the Democracy Challenge, of course, which helps you identify areas where you might find opportunities to support democracy in the...
by Michael Freedman | Aug 21, 2024 | Healthy Economy
Executive orders are easy; forging legislation is hard. Executive orders are flimsy and can be dismantled by the next administration. Crafting policy takes statesmanship and compromise. Policy lasts. It takes political leadership, along with an educated and motivated...
by Michael Freedman | Jan 31, 2024 | Character & Culture
“Find the things in life that make you cry. That makes you feel. Because they’re what make you human.” Joseph Adama, in the show Caprica Character is shaped by families, schools, and cultures, including art, literature, religion, and philosophy....
by Michael Freedman | Jan 31, 2024 | Learning & Growth
Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes. – Peter Drucker The primary elements of personal growth are education, personal development, and lifelong learning. Education is the foundation for the successful lives we...
by Michael Freedman | Jan 31, 2024 | Health & Environment, Nine Pillars
“Self-made gods, we are accountable to no one with only the laws of physics to keep us company. We are consequently wreaking havoc on our fellow animals and on the surrounding ecosystem. Seeking little more that our own comfort and amusement, yet never finding...
by Michael Freedman | Jan 31, 2024 | Consumer Empowerment
“Don’t underestimate the power of the vigilante consumer.” — Anita Roddick Free and open markets are the foundation of a vibrant economy. A competitive market exists where there is a healthy balance between organizations and consumers. Consumers...
by Michael Freedman | Jan 31, 2024 | Economic Opportunity
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. Upton Sinclair We are living in a period of rapid innovation in markets and products. Globalization has enabled companies to move jobs to countries with lower...
by Michael Freedman | Jan 31, 2024 | Healthy Economy
“In a healthy economy, empowering, sustaining and efficiency innovations operate in balance. A healthy economy creates and sustains more jobs before squeezing out inefficiencies.” – Clayton M. Christensen A healthy society and economy provide broad...
by Michael Freedman | Jan 31, 2024 | The Common Good
Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing the ground. – Frederick Douglass The Common Good is an ethical concept that holds that, for a society to be prosperous, we must regularly put the interests of...
by Michael Freedman | Jan 31, 2024 | Journalism & Trust
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my...
