ILF POST

By Douglass Carmichael The Harvard psychologist Robert Kegan has been writing about the overwhelming complexity of modern society and its impact on human growth. His book is titled “In Over our Heads: The Mental Demands of Modern Life”. Lately he has been writing about the impact on the presidency of modern complexity. [...]

By Ralph Keyes
New York Times columnist David Brooks recently noted that some sperm banks won’t accept donors shorter than 5’9″. Since he himself falls in that category, Brooks seemed a bit aggrieved by this fact, but didn’t question its premise: that bigger is better. On the same day on the same [...]

By Linc Bloomfield The situation in Iraq can be summed up in three sentences. The Sunni and Shiite leaders and their foot-soldiers are determined on total victory over, respectively, their historic inferiors and their traditional oppressors. The Kurds always wanted, now want, and will always want independence. The Americans in Baghdad and Washington doggedly hope [...]

By Douglass Carmichael We hear that education is the answer to America’s problems. But isn’t more education in a tight market merely going to have educated people competing with each other for scarce jobs, driving down the salaries they will get (amplified in part because some of the competition also comes from [...]

By Charles Lindblom Earlier in one of these ILF blogs (June 8, 06 under the title From National to Cross National ,”) I made a case for the creation of at least one global or world university in order to mix faculty, as well as students, of many countries far beyond the [...]

By Douglass Carmichael Neither the staff nor any Bank President can do the job now the way it is structured and the contradictory requirements of its mission as both a bank and a development agency.
The World Bank is not what people think it is. It is really the only multinational corporation, [...]