December 9, 2015
10 Steps to Restoring the Common Trust
Originally published on the Crispin Solutions blog on July 11, 2015. Also published on the Washington Examiner. by Rob Wasinger and Brian Robertson Twenty years ago, in his bestselling social critique Trust, Francis Fukuyama identified the breakdown of the underlying principles that...
December 7, 2015
Let’s Think Outside Conventional Political Boxes
Originally published on the Crispin Solutions blog on October 28, 2015. Also posted on The Federalist. by Brian Robertson and Rob Wasinger At a recent conference in Seattle, author Malcolm Gladwell pointed out a fascinating paradox of modern American life....
December 3, 2015
Dr. Carson, The Triumph of the Paranoid Style, and the Collapse of Social Trust
Originally published on the Crispin Solutions blog. by Brian Robertson and Rob Wasinger I call it the paranoid style simply because no other word adequately evokes the sense of heated exaggeration, suspiciousness, and conspiratorial fantasy that I have in mind. —...
December 1, 2015
The Rational Republicans
Also published on the CSM Donald Trump has threatened that if the Republican Party doesn’t treat him nicely, he will leave it and run as an independent. What if the Republican Party, instead, left him, and ran independently? What would...
November 30, 2015
US Can’t Wait for Change
Originally Posted on The Hill My dad died from Parkinson’s disease the day after Thanksgiving at a veterans home in Manteno, Ill., which is about 45 minutes to the southwest of Chicago. That brought me home to Illinois to visit...
November 27, 2015
The Honest Contrarian
It’s a helluva thing to not be able to eat on Thanksgiving because the Parkinson’s disease makes it impossible to swallow. Thanksgiving was always a big event in the Feehery household, and my Dad, who wasn’t as prodigious an eater...