Author: Tom Cronin
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World Series watch: Talent, money, ‘stat-geeks’ and coaches’ intuition | Tom Croni
Coloradans mostly gave up watching baseball this year because the Colorado Rockies were not worth watching — and that’s being polite about it. But now sports fans have a World Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Toronto Blue Jays that will be widely watched. And it will be exciting, even if the wealthy,…
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Tom Cronin: Leadership capital, and its paradoxes
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save “Leadership capital” is a general metaphor used in business, politics and the military to denote that a “leader” has approximately so much prestige or usable “currency.” It is not exactly the same as power or…
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Tom Cronin: Leadership capital, and its paradoxes
“Leadership capital” is a general metaphor used in business, politics and the military to denote that a “leader” has approximately so much prestige or usable “currency.” It is not exactly the same as power or position, yet it is related. One can have an important position, for example, but have lost their leadership capital. Leaders…
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Islamophobia, the KKK, replacement theory, and the fear of others | |Tom Cronin
What do President Donald Trump, former President Barack Obama, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and New York City’s recent political shooting star Zohran Mamdani all have in common? According to the Human Genome Project, they share 99.9% of their genetic DNA sequences, and they can trace their ancestry back to relatively recent common ancestors. Yet…
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New biography details Mark Twain’s evolution as a political voice | Tom Cronin
America’s best known and most revered storyteller, Mark Twain (1835-1910), is remembered for his novels, satirical punditry and travel writings, but is rarely thought of as a political thinker and activist A lengthy and remarkably revealing new biography by prize-winning author Ron Chernow (“Mark Twain,” Penguin, 2025) highlights Twain’s evolution from a parochial pro-Confederacy, anti-abolitionist…
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‘Warfare’ : Movie about a mission and war gone awry | Tom Cronin
Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, General David Petraeus and Democratic Congressman Jason Crow of Colorado served, along with 1.5 million others, in U.S. military interests in the Iraq war that began in 2003. The U.S. spent at least $2 trillion, lost about 4,500 service people and was responsible for a few hundred…
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Who is government? A debate | Tom Cronin
Americans have been skeptical — if not hostile — to government bureaucracies since 1789. Americans generally view big government as bad, remote, wasteful and unresponsive, if not irresponsible. Americans, going back to the Anti-Federalist movement and the Whiskey Rebellion, have scorned national bureaucracy and yearned for local control and decentralization. “Bureaucratic man” has never been a hero in…
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March Madness, ‘Coach Gene Hackman’ and Cinderella teams | Tom Cronin
March Madness, men’s college basketball NCAA Division I national championship playoffs, begin Tuesday. Millions of us played youth and pick-up basketball yet seldom watch college basketball games — but do tune in to watch the much hyped and often thrilling end of season March Madness. More than $10 billion will be bet on these games over…
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Trump storms the Capitol — and gives mixed signals | CRONIN & LOEVY
Tom Cronin and Bob Loevy Tom Cronin and Bob Loevy President Donald Trump is his own biggest cheerleader. He loves campaigning and he loves being a promoter — a promoter with multiple deals and multiple programs. He gave a lengthy, program-filled, blame-heavy, comeback-kid performance last Tuesday at the “Capitol Theater” in Washington, D.C. It broke the…
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Start-up to industry titan: Chip designer Nvidia and the AI revolution | Tom Cronin
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Tech giant Nvidia was founded in 1993 by three computer-scientist-video-gamers in the middle of Silicon Valley. They developed their plans at a local Denny’s in East San Jose. With no money and no investors, they…