by Marc Freedman | Apr 19, 2019 | Featured, POSTS: WHAT'S NEW, Viewpoints
I’m writing to let you know about a profoundly important new book from one of the most influential columnists of our time. The Second Mountain, written by New York Times and PBS NewsHour commentator David Brooks, tells a compelling and ultimately hopeful story about...
by Marc Freedman | Mar 14, 2019 | POSTS: WHAT'S NEW, Viewpoints
Imagine a place for the elderly that’s also filled with the sounds of kids playing. Marc Freedman goes to Singapore to investigate a new model for intergenerational living. Sister Geraldine Tan, an energetic woman in her 60s, speaks rapidly and is given to...
by Marc Freedman | Feb 11, 2019 | Featured, POSTS: WHAT'S NEW
Today the Irvine Foundation announced the winners of its 2019 Leadership Awards, recognizing “innovative, effective leaders whose breakthrough solutions to critical challenges improve people’s lives, create opportunity, and contribute to a better...
by Marc Freedman | Sep 5, 2018 | Featured, POSTS: WHAT'S NEW
Although I didn’t always realize it, my new book, How to Live Forever, has been a work in progress for the past 30 years. For decades I’ve been on a quest to answer a set of increasingly urgent questions: How can a society with more older people than younger ones...
by Marc Freedman | Sep 1, 2018 | Featured, POSTS: WHAT'S NEW
This week saw the passing of Harris Wofford, on Martin Luther King’s Birthday, as fate would have it. Wofford played a critical role in bringing together King and President John F. Kennedy, and was a driving force in the civil rights movement. A powerful writer, he...
