On American Arrogance (Charles Krauthammer, 2006)

My beef with American arrogance is not that we act like a traditional great power, occasionally knocking off foreign bad guys who richly deserve it. My problem is that we don't know when to stop--the trivial victories we insist on having in arenas that are quite superfluous...like victories in women's hockey (2002 with a score USA-12, China-1). I say we keep the big ones for ourselves (laser guided munitions, Google, Warren Buffet for example). Let the rest of the world have ice hockey, ballroom dancing, all the Nobel Prizes, and the Ryder Cup.

A Celebration of Self Delusion

You are driven to rally with your buds and then you believe others are wrong just because they are others.

Get to know yourself

From the new King

Are you arrogant?

I’m self-confident. I think arrogance is based on chronic insecurity. This is a brutal business, you have to be confident. But I like playing up to a certain cocky persona.

Oh, no...Vanity too?

Pride is excessive belief in one's own abilities, that interferes with the individual's recognition of the grace of God. It has been called the sin from which all others arise. Pride is also known as Vanity

Where Arrogance Hides

Hubris. It's an anchor around the necks of lots of Americans.

From "East Coker"

A man of great wisdom reminded me of T.S.Eliot's words to confuse the arrogantt: "The only wisdom we can hope to acquire / is the wisdom of humility".

Look out for those CEOs

Is your CEO a jerk? Here's why.