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Mandatory national service books The absence of mandatory military service in the baby boom generation has contributed to America's largely slovenly culture. Are We Rome by Cullen Murphy and A Call to Civic Service by Charles Moskos suggest bringing it back...
...healthy democracy. And I believe that the failure of my generation, the baby boomers, to sacrifice for the nation in any significant way, as our parents did, is the source of much of the sourness and corrosion that afflict our public life. In a new book, Are We Rome?, Cullen Murphy avoids the standard imperial clich?s but finds some interesting parallels, especially the notion that the Roman Empire began to falter when it started hiring out major functions of the government, including military service, to private contractors. Murphy cites the use of corporations like Halliburton to provide services that...
...Pays to Be Nice I was disgusted by Lisa Takeuchi Cullen's "No Jerks Allowed" [April 2]. Her attitude is from the aggressive 1980s. It is ridiculous to claim that there is a correlation between nastiness and giftedness. Some nasty people happen to be gifted, but it is not their nastiness that makes them so; on the contrary, it diminishes their effectiveness and costs their companies in both dollars and goodwill. I would not want to have a Steve Jobs or anyone on my team who "scars" his employees. Warren Buffett and Jimmy Carter, for example, do not find...
Exhibit A is Transformers, the summer's most anticipated movie event that doesn't end in a number, in which the hero will be played by Peter Cullen, a Canadian voice actor familiar to the teensiest fraction of moviegoers. With Steven Spielberg producing and Michael Bay directing this $150 million effects-ravaganza about dueling alien robot races, the protagonist could have been Will Smith or magazine-cover bait like Justin Timberlake. But Cullen was the voice of the character Optimus Prime in the Transformers TV show, a treasured part of the canon for true fans. (If the phrase "robots...
...Pays to Be Nice I was disgusted by Lisa Takeuchi Cullen's "No Jerks Allowed" [April 2]. Her attitude is from the aggressive 1980s. It is ridiculous to claim that there is a correlation between nastiness and giftedness. Some nasty people happen to be gifted, but it is not their nastiness that makes them so; on the contrary, it diminishes their effectiveness and costs their companies in both dollars and goodwill. I would not want to have a Steve Jobs or anyone on my team who "scars" his employees. Warren Buffett and Jimmy Carter, for example, do not find...