I’ve been reading Douglas Starr’s The Killer of Little Shepherds which documents the origins of forensic science alongside the story of how the French apprehended and successfully prosecuted serial killer Joseph Vachay…
Category: History
Bearing an Albatross
Here’s another reflection in the “Leading on the Seas” series of posts here. Check the category link to “Leading on the Seas” for a listing of other posts in the series. There’s…
The Ethics of Empathy – Pt. 2 (Guest Post)
I’m hijacking a comment to yesterday’s post on the dynamics of how the U.S. delegation should enter into the victim’s sufferings in Hiroshima on the 65th anniversary of the nuclear attacks. My…
Leadership Intel
“I don’t want to say we’re clueless, but we are,” according to an operations officer quoted in the report. “We’re no more than fingernail deep in our understanding of the environment.””Our senior…
Team of Rivals (Review)
This will be a short review because there have been so many posts of late related to this book. I’ll just give my overall thoughts. I really enjoyed this book. I had…
Scapegoating – 1862 Style
I came across this powerful quote from the New York Times in 1862 in my continued reading of Goodwin’s Team of Rivals. This was written during a very low season for the…