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“A crippling problem.” “A total epidemic.” “A problem like nobody understands.” These are the words President Trump used to describe the opioid epidemic ravaging the country during a White House listening session in March. The percentage of people in the U.S. dying of drug overdoses has effectively quadrupled since 1999, and drug overdoses now rank as the leading cause of […]
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Recently, my book entitled “Synchronization in Digital Communication Systems” was published by Cambridge University Press. As I mentioned in its preface, my fellow engineers and I have spent a lot of time on designing, debugging and testing the receiver blocks that are related to synchronization. In this blog, I will provide a summary of the […]
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“This is a ‘both-and’ book. Those who prefer confrontational ‘either-or’ discourse should look elsewhere”. This is how I conclude the Introduction of my recently published CUP book Genes, Determinism and God. The comment is leveled against those wishing to portray human personhood using either-or dichotomous language – such as nature/nurture or genes/environment – in the […]
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I’ve been reading Austen since childhood, and I am only half joking when I say that if you put me under light hypnosis, I could probably recite Pride and Prejudice word for word in its entirety. Between what the novels have taught me about writing and about life – and especially about the profound, delicate […]
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Originally posted on The Conversation, Bert Spector, author of Discourse on Leadership, explains how recent White House turmoil relates to leadership theory
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Originally posted on Leaders at Work In the first few minutes of President Donald Trump’s inaugural cabinet meeting, the President seemingly encouraged all participants to, one by one, offer their allegiance, loyalty, and gratefulness for the opportunity to serve his agenda. They used words like, “privileged,” “deeply honored,” and even “blessed.” The President smiled broadly […]
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Racial inequality is alive and well in America, and conservatives are strategically dismantling one of the greatest tools in the arsenal against persistent injustices: the vote. The expansion and contraction of the right to vote has been an ongoing theme in U.S. history. When the right to vote has been expanded, it has often translated […]
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It was in the 1970s, in the course of some local history research in the London Borough of Camden, that I discovered quite by chance a grave in the old churchyard of St-John-at-Hampstead, in which Jane Austen’s aunt Mrs Hancock was buried together with her daughter Eliza de Feuillide and her grandson Hastings de Feuillide. […]
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