Author: MassCommons

Overheard at a dinner party this weekend  (all dialogue guaranteed approximate): NWP*  “I ended up sending my kid to private school.  The public school seemed okay but it has a lot of students who are just...

There’s nothing quite like a public school concert for renewing your faith in the American experiment.  No offense to Mitt Romney, but when a bunch of 13 year olds—at least half of whom are immigrants—sing...

“Ayn Rand more than anyone else did a fantastic job of explaining the morality of capitalism, the morality of individualism….” Well, I give Paul Ryan credit for his boldness—going to Georgetown to do...

Within the Catholic Church, the Jesuits are to intellectual disputation what the Yankees are to Major League Baseball, what the Marines are to armed forces, what Goldman Sachs is to Wall Street.  Esquire’s Charles...

The Boston Globe’s Brian McGrory is on a roll: So enough said about Ted Kelly’s exquisitely obscene $50 million annual compensation package at Liberty Mutual.  It’s time to move on to other things. Just...