quote [ They found that when �??good�?� governments�??ones that provided goods and services for their people and did not starkly concentrate wealth and power�??fell apart, they broke down more intensely than collapsing despotic regimes. And the researchers found a common thread in the collapse of good governments: leaders who undermined and broke from upholding core societal principles, morals, and ideals. ]

quote [ So getting back to David Chapman: his post is mostly about Robert Kegan�??s account of �??stages of moral development�?�. I didn�??t get much from Kegan himself, but I was fascinated by an idea just sort of dropped into the middle of the discussion: that less than half of the people in modern western countries had attained Kegan�??s fourth stage, and only a small handful attained his fifth. This was a way of thinking about development that I�??d never heard before. ]

quote [ The David Rumsey Map Center, with more than 150,000 rare maps, atlases, globes and pocket maps, will celebrate its grand opening. ]