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• Sharp Notes Monday: ‘She’s A Rainbow’

  By Jandoli Institute on June 5, 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  Long before the rainbow flag became a symbol of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender pride, the Rolling Stones included a song called “She’s A Rainbow” on their 1967 album ‘Their Satanic Majesties Request.’

• Sharp Notes Monday: “Where Have All the Flowers Gone?”

  By Jandoli Institute on May 29, 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  Memorial Day provides an opportunity to reflect on war and the many lives that have been lost over the years in conflicts all over the globe. 

• Kissinger at 100:  His Complex Historical Legacy

  By Jandoli Institute on May 24, 2023 • ( 2 )

  

  The Kissinger historical legacy is indeed complex. There are conflicting legacies of both a positive and negative nature. In this essay, Alan J. Steinberg provides a guide to these different legacies.

• Sharp Notes Monday: “One Man’s Ceiling Is Another Man’s Floor”

  By Jandoli Institute on May 22, 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  The national debt is not a topic that lends itself to song, but Paul Simon did have a word or two to say about ceilings on his 1973 ‘There Goes Rhymin’ Simon’ album.

• Political discourse may not be so negative after all

  By Jandoli Institute on May 22, 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  Given the widespread perception that politics is negative, the results of the project are somewhat surprising.

• Sharp Notes Monday: ‘Disorder in the House’

  By Jandoli Institute on May 15, 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  It has been almost a week since CNN’s Town Hall Meeting with former President Donald Trump, but the session still is drawing reactions and raising questions.

• Trust in government

  By Jandoli Institute on May 9, 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  We are seeing a very troubling set of findings in the United States: the absence of trust among about three-quarters of us in the basic institutions on which we once depended. 

• Sharp Notes Monday: ‘Words’

  By Jandoli Institute on May 8, 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  Regardless of the format — book, letter, song, even a television or film script — all writing has one thing in common — words.

• Sharp Notes Monday: ‘Out of Work’

  By Jandoli Institute on May 1, 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  Given the sudden departures of two major media personalities, ‘Out of Work’ is this week’s Sharp Notes Monday selection.

• Biden, Trump and Sigmund Freud

  By Jandoli Institute on April 27, 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  Joe Biden, Donald Trump and Sigmund Freud walk into a bar and…

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