• Majoring in Leadership

      What if Genghis Khan had gone to college?  I pose the question because many colleges now offer courses in “leadership,”  and I’m wondering: could Genghis have profited from those? Or Napoleon, for that matter? What distinguishes a Napoleon Bonaparte from a Billy-Bob Bonaparte? Can the quality be packaged into…

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    • How Fire Came to Be

      The little boy listened to his grandmother talking about the days when fire was still a novelty. “And were you there when it was invented, Granny?” he cried out, all agog with wonder. “Indeed I was,” she replied, smoothing his hair.  “Indeed I was. It happened long ago, when…

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    • Raoul, the Philosopher

      Xavier Zanzibar—XZ for short—went walking through the wilderness.  As he pushed his way through the brambles and thickets, he could hear ignorant armies clashing in the thickets all around him.  XZ came to a meadow, in the middle of which he saw a stone. Upon the stone sat a…

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