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Timothy Jacobson on the perils of reminiscing over times past.

Brand Story - Kaiser Permanente Sunnyside Medical Center’s collaborative-care model drives national recognition. When the team at Kaiser Permanente Su...

The moral standards that enable a society to hold itself together—generosity, loyalty, justice, the dignity of the individual, the right to freedom—are themselves rooted in the sacred in every society.

6 . 9 . 21 One hundred and sixty years ago, this country was fumbling into dissolution and civil war. Sixty years ago, it was fumbling with how to mark the war's Centennial. In 1961, the Confederate gray was still deemed honorable among the majority of white Southerners. By the time the Centennial came to a close four years later, the civil rights movement had swung into high gear, culminating that August with passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which outlawed racial discrimination at the ballot box and was signed into law by a Southern president. These events, plus some surprise ones�...

1 . 22 . 21 Sometime between my arrival at college over half a century ago and my departure four years later, the world shifted. It was impossible to miss and hard, as we would say today, to “process” how visions of a Great Society and a Second Reconstruction yielded riots and cultural revolution. America at the start of the Sixties looked the successful going concern. By the end it looked a shambles. The public markers of the Sixties included omnibus civil rights legislation, invention of affirmative action and a war on poverty, race riots in northern cities, the assassinations of MLK an...