Politics
Conversations With Leaders: Anderson Sainci
If you recall, Anderson Sainci, C’10 & MAC ’12, published a guest post on this blog titled An Approach To Servant Leadership. An ode to his Mother, who taught him lessons of love and leadership.I was excited to invite him back for a podcast interview that turned into a wonderful...
An Interview With Dubuque Mayor Roy Buol
Listen to the interview: Watch the full interview: Jeffrey Bullock: Well, I wanna welcome all of you to this inaugural version of this vlog or this podcast, which is known as Conversations about Leadership Matters. We're doing this in response...
Strengthening Reckless Minds
Mark Lilla’s The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics is a cautionary study for all of us. Rather than an indictment of intellectuals in politics, he is more broadly examining how some of the most well-recognized philosophers of the 20th century—the smartest people on earth—so egregiously misjudged the ideological ramifications of...
Doing the Brain Health Dishes
Originally published January 27, 2019 in the Cedar Rapids Gazette & the Waverly Newspapers In her Condition of the State message, Gov. Kim Reynolds noted that Iowa has invested significant resources since a 2013 redesign of mental health services and will continue to do more this year with the creation of...
The Ambiguity of Heroes
Rev. Professor Peter Gomes (1942-2011) was an American Baptist minister who, from 1974 to the time of his death, served as Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pursey Minister in The Memorial Church, Harvard University. The following post is an excerpt from his sermon, The Ambiguity of Heroes, which was...
A Prescriptive Post-Mortem for Iowa
Published 12/30/2018 in the Telegraph Herald “A well-informed electorate is a prerequisite for Democracy” - Thomas Jefferson We have a vested interest in the health of our state. We work, educate our children, and participate in community life. We pay taxes to support public schools, infrastructure, public safety, and medical care...
An American Armistice
On Sunday, November 11, 2018 I had the distinct honor of praying the benediction at the Centennial Armistice Ceremony at the Meuse-Argonne Cemetery and Memorial in France. Our family prepared by watching the classic film Sergeant York, which depicts the events that took place at the Meuse-Argonne. About an hour...
In Service to Our Better Angels
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham’s recently released The Soul of America: the Battle for Our Better Angels is the source of conversation in pundit circles these days. For some, The Soul of America is a subtle critique of the Trump administration and its policies. For others, the book is a...
A Review of “Why Liberalism Failed”
One of the readers of my blog referred me to Patrick J. Deneen’s book, Why Liberalism Failed. He told me that it would be a difficult read, but that I needed to read it. He was right. It is a difficult read, and the other readers of this blog will...
“I’ve Been to the Mountaintop”
On April 5, 1968, I was getting ready for school when my mother came down the stairs to tell me that Martin Luther King, Jr. had been assassinated. We received this news the morning after he had been killed on the balcony of the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis, Tennessee. There...
