Good history is good story-telling. And good story-telling demands empathy; it requires understanding different actors, differing motivations, competing goals.

The Chinese Communist Party and the American people are locked in conflict.

Before becoming a college president, I helped over a dozen organizations find strategies to get through some very ugly crises.

Obamacare has eliminated choices for millions of families, suffocated patient-centered medical innovation, and moved the United States closer to European-style centralized planning.

I like the values associated with a medical family - common sense, being practical but also thoughtful.

In the end, life is wonderful but nonetheless a series of trade offs, especially between business/professional endeavours and family/community.

I come from a big family of hairdressers; they didn't read newspapers. I would say, 'I'm off to Afghanistan...' and they would say, 'Have fun!'

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.