This is the 142nd newsletter that the ASA Institute for Risk and Innovation has published since 2009, each containing a column that I have written on the Sunday morning preceding publication.  In its early years, ASA covered most dimensions of operational risk through a lens that analyzed events from the perspectives of people, process, systems, and external events. 

University Professor Francois is approaching the thick of middle age while the Islamic world encroaches on the French Liberal Body Politic. Women are wearing burqas, alcohol is prohibited (except for the Islamic elite), and all men are encouraged to have multiple wives, the younger the better. Francois will soon lose his job at the New Sorbonne University, unless he submits to the new reigning Islamic order. He must profess his loyalty to Allah.

In May, Donald Trump’s post was cited in The Cultural Landscape Foundation’s lawsuit against the U.S. Department of the Interior. TCLF, a nonprofit group that advocates for the value of our shared landscape heritage, maintains that Interior violated federal law by failing to submit for review a change of paint color – from achromatic/gray to “American Flag blue” – for the basin of the Reflecting Pool on the National Mall.