The Journal of Cultural Conversation

On The Athena Doctrine, Secrets and Brilliant Art Perspectives

by Laura on 05/14/2013 · 0 comments

Here’s a quick round-up of the latest Huffington Post writings, including two TED Weekends posts as well as an interview with the author of The Athena Doctrine, who I met at December’s TEDxWomen 2012 conference in Washington, D.C.

More to come from a few other publications soon – stay tuned.

On Huffington Post: Psychopathy: A Cultural Reality?

by Laura on 03/29/2013 · 0 comments

A few months ago, The Huffington Post began its weekly TED Weekends series, featuring commentary from opinion leaders around some of the best, most inspiring TED Talks.

I’ve been fortunate to participate in the conversations — my most recent article on psychopathy is a personal viewpoint on Jon Ronson’s TED Talk. All are invited to read and comment – more to come!

On Self-Deception and Patience

Tweet Recently, I published two articles on the Huffington Post. On the surface, they have no relationship to one another other. Self deception? Patience? Hardly an obvious connection. Yet, a few friends pointed out this weekend that when linked together, the topics create an interesting conversation. The premise of the topics are drastically different, yet [...]

February 3, 2013 CONTINUE READING →

Music Has Something to Sing . . . for Change

Tweet For the past few months, I’ve been interviewing musicians across genres to discuss not only what’s motivated them to create, but also about how they see their music changing the communities in which they live. Music, for these artists, has emerged as a cultural platform to engage and unify communities and in many cases, [...]

December 1, 2012 CONTINUE READING →

On Huffington Post Arts and Culture: Life Music: Walter Parks on Interesting Sounds, Averageness and Sucking it Up

Tweet A few weeks ago, veteran musician and insightful creator Walter Parks and I spoke about what motivates him as a musician and individual. Many compelling insights – you can read more on HuffPost here.

November 2, 2012 CONTINUE READING →

1000 Great Minds #8: Rebecca West

Tweet “I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a door mat or a prostitute.” ~ Rebecca West A woman obsessed with cultural conversation, Cicely Isabel Fairfield, aka Rebecca West, lived to be [...]

May 6, 2012 CONTINUE READING →

1000 Great Minds #7: Jimmy Page

Tweet “I always believed in the music we did and that’s why it was uncompromising.” ~ Jimmy Page My first concert was a Robert Plant/Jimmy Page gig. Of course, I admire both of them – their collective artistic talents and the impact they’ve had on music are unmatched. But Page reminds me of someone who, [...]

April 15, 2012 CONTINUE READING →