As the country inelegantly lurches towards some pre-pandemic normal (which is most probably being done mid-pandemic), it feels like “Make America Great Again” has become “Make America Livable Again.” And just as that “great” only applied to a select portion of the population, the old normal didn’t feel normal at…

Throughout the American Civil War, people of privilege were going about their day. Carrying on with building businesses, having dinner out, spending afternoons in the park. 150 years later we have hot water on tap, refrigeration, grocery stores, television. Over that period of time, what was once considered luxury became…

The NoVo Foundation has been supporting work in Kingston for coming up to a decade, shortly after Jennifer and I moved here in 2011. In 2006, my father made a pledge to return nearly all of his wealth back to society. The NoVo Foundation was the recipient of a small…

I wrote the below at the onset of the pandemic and felt that it might be helpful to post here. — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — Many years before the NoVo Foundation we knew our current culture was deeply out of balance and built on white supremacy, from the stories Peter’s…