The story of Lafayette is the story of America; they’ve just had the courage and foresight to ask a more sophisticated set of questions. They are responding to their stress and chronic budget shortfalls not by reflexively seeking more revenue or more service cuts – the standard responses – but by asking: why isn’t this working?
Read MoreSharing some of G.K. Chesterton's city-building metaphors from Chapter 5 of Orthodoxy. The general idea is that an admirable life is one of mystic patriotism. By this he means having a somewhat irrational, inexplicable love for the place you live (both the universe at large and your little home therein). You love it just because it's yours. And yet you recognize that it's pretty messed up as well. And SINCE you love it so much, you work hard to improve it.
Read MoreHappy Jane Jacobs Day! (And now Urban Renewal Remembrance Day as well.) Today would have been the activist and urban theorist's 99th birthday, and it seems like every year, evidence continues to amass of her wisdom, foresight, and appeal to all corners of the political spectrum.
Read MorePlease take some time today to remember those who suffered from our collective hubris. Then vow to never to be fooled by randomness.
Read MoreToday's my last day at CNU 23 and we're going to leave nothing on the table.
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