Great powers reserve the right to police bad actors in their neighborhoods.

What makes a terrorist? Are the drivers primarily political or economic? Princeton economist Alan Krueger has made a great study of this question...What Makes a Terrorist lacks a question mark. That's because Krueger, marshaling persuasive statistics and analysis, comes down firmly on the side of politics, noting most terrorists are middle-class and well-educated.

If you can get out in front of people with your ideas and your execution, you'll attract the people who need to be pulled in.

Women waited 144 years before earning suffrage. If a mature, multiparty democracy was so darn easy, everybody would have one.

Run with what works: Sell to the people who believe in you and are willing to take the chances and make the experience happen.

Great powers reserve the right to police bad actors in their neighborhoods.

Wikistrat is my ninth start-up, so I've been through this process a few times. You have to go with what works. The power of example is compelling, so model the ideas that you want someone to understand.