Tag Archives: Politics
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4
Apr
2017
Can Twitter Predict Elections?
Although the results of the US presidential election took many by surprise, Twitter analysis would have indicated that Donald Trump was winning the social media war. 'Twitter: A Digital Socioscope' pr...
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13
Feb
2017
On Freud on Us
A good deal of attention has focused on the psychological makeup of the man who sought and won the Presidency in 2016, including the provocative “Is Donald Trump a Psychopath” by fellow Cambridge author,...
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5
Dec
2016
Race Matters
“The problem of the 20th century is the problem of the color line,” W.E.B. DuBois famously observed of the United States. Despite the occasional proclamations of a post-racial society in the aftermath...
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9
Nov
2016
Speaking Up on Behalf of Resistance
With the 2016 election come and gone, Bert Spector reflects on leadership and resistance...
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5
Nov
2016
Leadership and Hubris
In Discourse on Leadership, I identify a 1977 article by Harvard psychologist Abraham Zaleznik as a seminal work in our interpretation of leadership. Leaders, he argued, are folks who “develop fresh...
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31
Oct
2016
“Such a Nasty Woman”
With only a week left before Election Day, Bert Spector dissects Trump's recent "nasty woman" comments and their relationship to leadership discourse....
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21
Oct
2016
Secular Conversions: The Importance of Thinking...
Damon Mayrl explores the importance of thinking institutionally about secularization in modern societies....
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5
Oct
2016
More on Ideology and Leadership
All leadership is ideological; all business is ideological. I’ve made this argument in an earlier blog, “The Myth of Pragmatic Leadership,” as well as in Discourse on Leadership: A Critical Analysis. ...
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