by John Rogers | Feb 25, 2022 | Blog, Media
In so many ways, the world has shifted beneath our feet this week. For the past thirty-plus years we have been part of the great peace. Gone were the days when words like “containment,” “détente,” and “iron curtain” were part of our lexicon. Of course, we had...
by John Rogers | Jan 6, 2022 | Blog
In Greek mythology, Cassandra is given the gift of prophecy, paired with the curse that no one will believe her. I sure hope that all of us who have been raising the alarm around the dangers to democracy don’t find ourselves characterized as Cassandra’s someday in the...
by John Rogers | Sep 28, 2021 | Blog
I recently had the opportunity to attend my first conference in-person since the start of the pandemic last March. Held concurrently with the United Nations General Assembly, the Concordia Summit was founded ten years ago. I was honored to sit on a panel and attend...
by John Rogers | Jun 2, 2020 | Blog
Marches. Protests. Riots. Each is a different, unique expression of anguish facing communities and their allies. Each is capable of evolving into another in an instant, with or without actual, representative intent, much less strategic planning. All of them are rooted...
by John Rogers | May 27, 2020 | Blog
I got an out-of-the-blue email the other day from a couple of old friends and colleagues. They were looping me into a broader email thread of former Les Aspin staffers in honor of the twenty-fifth anniversary of Les’ death. For those of you who don’t know, Aspin was...
by John Rogers | May 12, 2020 | Blog
We have a choice: we can either retrench into what was, realigning with old systems that have already revealed their cracks, or take the brave step the Renaissance Men and Women took to envision a new future—and then create that. The medieval Plague seems irrelevant...