by DianaMIVA | Feb 1, 2024 | Character & Culture
“Find the things in life that make you cry. That makes you feel. Because they’re what make you human.” – Joseph Adama, in the show Caprica Families, schools, and cultures, including art, literature, religion, and philosophy, shape character....
by DianaMIVA | Jan 25, 2024 | Learning & Growth
Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes. – Peter Drucker The primary elements of personal growth are education, personal development, and lifelong learning. Education is the foundation for successful lives. Accordingly,...
by DianaMIVA | Jan 18, 2024 | Health & Environment
“Self-made gods, we are accountable to no one with only the laws of physics to keep us company. We are consequently wreaking havoc on our fellow animals and the surrounding ecosystem. Seeking little more than our own comfort and amusement, yet never finding...
by DianaMIVA | Jan 11, 2024 | Consumer Empowerment
“Don’t underestimate the power of the vigilante consumer.” — Anita Roddick Free and open markets are the foundation of a vibrant economy. A competitive market exists where there is a healthy balance between organizations and consumers. Consumers shop...
by DianaMIVA | Jan 4, 2024 | Economic Opportunity
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it”. – Upton Sinclair We are living in a period of rapid innovation in markets and products. Globalization has enabled companies to move jobs to...
by DianaMIVA | Dec 28, 2023 | Healthy Economy
“In a healthy economy, empowering, sustaining, and efficient innovations operate in balance. A healthy economy creates and sustains more jobs before squeezing out inefficiencies.” – Clayton M. Christensen A healthy society and economy provide broad...
by DianaMIVA | Dec 21, 2023 | The Common Good
Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing the ground. – Frederick Douglass The Common Good is an ethical concept that holds that, for a society to be prosperous, we must regularly put the interests of...
by DianaMIVA | Dec 14, 2023 | Journalism & Trust
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my...
by DianaMIVA | Dec 7, 2023 | Democratic Values
OVERVIEW “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” – Martin Luther King, Jr. We support and promote Liberal Democracy as the form of government that allows all citizens to live their best lives. Democracy must...
by DianaMIVA | Oct 4, 2023 | The Public Square Academy
Fourteen students in a Rhode Island lawsuit say the state provided such a substandard education that it “violates their rights under the U.S. Constitution.” Our current political polarization brings the state of civic education to the public debate. How do...
