BLOG POST ARCHIVE
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Articles/Op-eds/Essays
- Jul 11, 2020 Personal Weaknesses
- Jul 11, 2020 James Baldwin: “The Free and the Brave,
- Feb 29, 2020 Joe Biden Affirms Equality
- Feb 29, 2020 Draft Declaration for Evolutionary Transformation
- Feb 25, 2020 Barbara Ehrenreich on the Middle Class
- Jan 30, 2020 Presidents, Revolution, and Organizing
- Jan 21, 2020 Guaranteed Public Service Employment
- Oct 17, 2019 The Democrats: Technocrats Rule
- Aug 31, 2019 Politicians, Movements, and Democracy
- Aug 28, 2019 Racism and Support for Trump
- Aug 22, 2019 An Open Letter to Cory Booker
- Aug 19, 2019 Restructuring Democracy
- Aug 14, 2019 Old Brain, New Brain, Cross-Partisan Dialog
- Aug 4, 2019 Religion, Spirituality, and the 2020 Election
- Aug 1, 2019 Charles Hartshorne: Neoclassical Metaphysics
- Jul 27, 2019 Once Again, the System Wins and the Democrats Lose
- May 2, 2019 Crime, Scapegoating, and Daily Life
- Mar 4, 2019 David Brooks on the Social Fabric
- Feb 23, 2019 The Autocracy App
- Feb 20, 2019 Birddogging
- Jan 18, 2019 Multiple Identities, Politics, Freedom, and Equality
- Sep 24, 2018 Don’t Feed the Trolls
- Jun 29, 2018 Civility, Racism, and the Red Hen
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Books
- Jul 11, 2020 Detox Your Thoughts
- Jul 11, 2020 How the South Won the Civil War
- Dec 13, 2019 Racial Healing: Rhonda Magee
- Nov 4, 2019 Ben Sasse: Strengths and Weaknesses
- Oct 17, 2019 Private Authoritarianism
- Sep 24, 2019 Adam Gopnik: Liberalism. The “Left,” and the “Right”
- Aug 26, 2019 Joy, Anger, Polarity, and Transcendence
- Aug 1, 2019 Diderot’s Encyclopedia
- Jul 14, 2019 Humility and Rationality
- Jun 10, 2019 The Politics of Petulance: A Spirited Defense of “Mature Liberalism”
- Jun 6, 2019 Rural Resentment and 2020
- May 30, 2019 Irrational Populism
- May 20, 2019 A Shallow, Leftist Critique of “The Coddling of the American Mind”
- Apr 15, 2019 Trickle-Down Tolerance
- Apr 5, 2019 The New Age Gets (Somewhat) Political
- Mar 14, 2019 DeRay Mckesson and the Domination-Submission System
- Feb 11, 2019 Irrational Politics
- Jan 22, 2019 Democrats, Border Walls, and Social Polarization
- Jan 7, 2019 The American Dream, Redefined
- Dec 13, 2018 A Marshall Plan for the Earth
- Dec 7, 2018 The People vs. Democracy: A Review
- Nov 15, 2018 The Thriving World, the Wilting World, and You
- Oct 24, 2018 The Courage to Be
- Jul 30, 2018 “Your Privilege is Showing”
- Jul 15, 2018 Great Transition Initiative: A Beacon of Positivity
- Jun 1, 2018 Tailspin
- Apr 17, 2018 Intimate Mutual Support
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Cultural
- Feb 21, 2024 “The Constitution of Knowledge” Excerpts
- Feb 20, 2024 Building Trust in School
- Feb 19, 2024 The NFL and the Egalitarian Cultural Revolution
- Jan 5, 2024 Rhiannon Giddens Interview
- Nov 17, 2023 The Politics of Language
- Apr 9, 2023 Materialism
- Aug 29, 2022 What Bob Dylan Wanted at Twenty-three
- Aug 5, 2022 Consumerism and Human Agency
- May 23, 2022 Introduction to Cultural Evolution
- Mar 12, 2022 Cultural Resources
- Feb 27, 2022 Vladimir Putin’s Clash of Civilizations
- Sep 30, 2021 “Anthro-Vision: A New Way to See in Business and Life” Review
- Aug 27, 2021 American Corruption
- Jul 15, 2021 ‘White Supremacy’ Once Meant David Duke and the Klan. Now It Refers to Much More.
- Jan 13, 2021 Epistemic Toxicity
- Jan 6, 2021 THE CULTURAL
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Economic
- Jun 13, 2023 Combatting Homelessness
- May 7, 2023 How to Strengthen Family Farms
- Mar 21, 2023 Leadership
- Feb 16, 2023 Is the Marriage Between Democracy and Capitalism on the Rocks?
- Mar 22, 2022 The Right Thing, the Right Way, Right Now
- Feb 21, 2022 The Age of Anti-Ambition
- Nov 23, 2021 Comment on "The Human Costs of AI"
- Sep 30, 2021 It’s All a Gift
- Aug 31, 2021 Housing Growth: Ezra Klein Intervew
- Aug 31, 2021 Growth and Consumption: Ezra Klein Interview
- Aug 29, 2021 Personal Rapid Transportation: Multipurpose Renovation
- Aug 13, 2021 America Runs on ‘Dirty Work’
- Aug 10, 2021 Restaurants Will Never Be the Same. They Shouldn’t Be
- Aug 10, 2021 Getting Old Is a Crisis More and More Americans Can’t Afford
- Aug 1, 2021 Can Silicon Valley Find God?
- Jun 14, 2021 Democracy Is Weakening Right in Front of Us
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Environmental
- Jul 15, 2021 It Seems Odd That We Would Just Let the World Burn
- Feb 3, 2021 Green New Deal
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Original Essays
- Dec 3, 2020 Deep Nonviolence or Strategic Nonviolence?
- Oct 28, 2020 Self-centeredness
- Jul 2, 2020 Overcoming Bias & Prejudice
- Dec 4, 2019 Face-to-face Democracy
- Nov 25, 2019 Left-Right, Top-Down, or Multiple Identities?
- Oct 28, 2019 Democratic Equality and Democratic Dialog
- Sep 9, 2019 My Story: Peer-to-Peer Community (Part One)
- Jun 29, 2019 Still Looking for a Holistic Community
- Jun 26, 2019 Beyond Left and Right: Compassionate Pragmatism
- Jun 21, 2019 The Left-Right Spectrum: Email to Ezra Klein
- Apr 2, 2019 Self Care
- Feb 23, 2019 Declaration Dialog
- Feb 20, 2019 The Declaration: Criticisms
- Feb 20, 2019 The Declaration: Reservations
- Feb 20, 2019 The Declaration: Suggested Changes
- Feb 20, 2019 The Declaration: Praise
- Nov 11, 2018 Donald Trump: The Triumph of Frustration, The Failure Of Vision
- Oct 7, 2018 Why Didn’t the Democrats Stop the Nomination?
- Oct 1, 2018 The Kavanaugh Nomination: A Symptom
- Sep 24, 2018 Don’t Feed the Trolls
- Sep 19, 2018 Comments on “The Precariat: Today's Transformative Class?”
- Sep 17, 2018 Racism: Language Matters
- Sep 3, 2018 Self-Improvement
- Aug 30, 2018 Trump the Symptom
- Aug 15, 2018 Charlottesville, Parkland, and Schlesinger
- Aug 12, 2018 Notes of an Urban Hermit (627 words)
- Aug 3, 2018 Evolutionary Revolution
- Jul 27, 2018 Reflections on “How Do We Get There?”
- Jul 23, 2018 GT Nuclear Disarmament Discussion
- Jul 6, 2018 The Power of Yes
- Jul 2, 2018 Undermine Trump with Love
- Jun 27, 2018 Paying the Price for Unity
- Jun 15, 2018 Change Myself, Change the World
- May 17, 2018 Nurturing Community, Countering Individualism
- Apr 12, 2018 Why Systems Thinking
- Apr 5, 2018 Transforming the System
- Mar 25, 2018 How to Transform the System
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Personal
- Oct 18, 2023 Why do we want to dominate or be subservient to another?, Krishnamurti
- Aug 4, 2023 August 2023 Editor’s Note
- Jun 6, 2023 From "The Transcendentalist," by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Apr 9, 2023 Crucifixion-Resurrection
- Feb 20, 2023 The Rise of Therapy-Speak
- Jun 28, 2022 Joining Hearts and Hands together: Vocations calling Vision share
- Apr 30, 2022 renovations after surviving the worst of covid
- Mar 1, 2022 Julian of Norwich is “Nothing if Not Persistent”
- Jan 11, 2022 Dialogues / Holistic Spirituality
- Oct 26, 2021 Root Wisdom from the Elders Circle
- Sep 17, 2021 Cultivate Listening
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Proposals
- Dec 5, 2018 Transforming the World: A Scenario
- Dec 3, 2018 Comment on "Question: How Activists Operate"
- Nov 25, 2018 Report on "Question: How Activists Operate"
- Nov 14, 2018 A Vision
- Oct 29, 2018 Mobilizing the Compassionate Supermajority: A Declaration for Global Transformation
- Aug 23, 2018 Why Launch a “Transform the System Network”
- Aug 12, 2018 Transformation Chart
- Jul 16, 2018 Proposed: A Global Transformation Call to Action Prize
- Jun 18, 2018 Transform the World: Let Compassion Be Our Guide
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Public Opinion Data
- Oct 15, 2018 Purple Points of Agreement
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Resoures
- Jul 15, 2020 Fear of Falling, Ehrenreich
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Social
- Jan 1, 2024 The Willingness to Submit
- Oct 23, 2023 The Essential Skills for Being Human
- Oct 13, 2023 Thoughts on “Betty Friedan and the Movement That Outgrew Her”
- May 22, 2023 What Conversation Can Do for Us
- May 5, 2023 Solutions to social problems lie close to home
- Mar 21, 2023 Leadership
- Oct 15, 2022 "People of Color"?
- May 3, 2022 The Desire to Dominate and the Willingness to Submit
- Jan 14, 2022 Two First Things in Building Collective Action
- Dec 5, 2021 Georgia Football: Team "Connection"
- Oct 13, 2021 Holistic Check-ins
- Sep 3, 2021 Globalization and the Myth of Human Races
- Aug 25, 2021 Nonprofit Partnerships
- Aug 12, 2021 Who Will Take Care of America’s Caregivers?
- Aug 11, 2021 What I’ve Learned Over a Lifetime of Caring for the Dying
- Jul 26, 2021 Practice Listening
- Jul 23, 2021 Mutual Support Groups
- Jul 23, 2021 A Listening Room
- Jul 23, 2021 A Network of Mutual Support Teams
- Jul 10, 2021 How Privilege and Capital Warped a Movement
- May 18, 2021 Talk With Your Enemy? Dialogue about Dialogue
- Feb 11, 2021 A Network of Holistic Support Groups
- Feb 3, 2021 Women's March
- Jan 30, 2021 Reflections on Social Dynamics
- Jul 28, 2020 Creating Positive Community Information Exchange
- Jul 11, 2020 Possible Mutual Support Methods
- Jul 11, 2020 Platinum Communication Tutorial
- Feb 22, 2020 Open Topic Dialog: A Way to Cultivate Democracy
- Sep 22, 2019 Community Dialogs
- Aug 31, 2019 Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on Identity Politics: Ezra Klein Interview
- Aug 10, 2019 Mutual Support for Self-Improvement
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Systemic
- Apr 20, 2023 Talcott Parsons
- Feb 27, 2023 Engaged Spirituality Presentation — 2/26/23
- Jan 26, 2023 Responses to Our Commitment
- Nov 5, 2022 Survival, Sustainability, and Solidarity
- Oct 5, 2022 Promoting the Compassionate Humanity Community
- Jul 19, 2022 A Compassionate Humanity Community Proclamation
- Jul 7, 2022 For a Moral Humanity (413 words)
- Feb 4, 2022 Hannah Arendt on Violence and Politics
- Jan 15, 2022 Cultural Evolution
- Jan 12, 2022 A New Worldview
- Jan 1, 2022 Dialogues / Plutocracy?
- Dec 27, 2021 "The Aristocracy of Talent" Review
- Aug 10, 2021 Justified Domination
- Aug 9, 2021 Mutual Support for Holistic Improvement
- Jun 23, 2021 The Mender Pledge
- Jun 18, 2021 Who Can Win America’s Politics of Humiliation?
- Nov 21, 2020 Philip Woods and Holistic Democracy
- Apr 22, 2020 The Human Crisis
- Feb 14, 2020 Joaquin Phoenix 2020 Oscar Acceptance Speech
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governmental
- Aug 15, 2021 Dialog with Harry C. Boyte
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multi-sector
- Jul 2, 2021 To Unite a Divided America, Make People Work for It
- Jun 16, 2021 Trumpism Without Borders
- Mar 1, 2021 Rebuilding the Community Fabric for the Information Age
- Jan 20, 2021 Joe Biden’s 2021 inauguration speech - excerpts
- Jan 18, 2021 The Fear of Demographic Eclipse
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political
- Jan 15, 2024 Immigration: ChatGPT
- Jan 3, 2024 Justice by Means of Democracy: A Review
- Oct 28, 2023 The U.S. Should Think Twice About Israel’s Plans for Gaza
- Sep 21, 2023 Stop Taking Sides: Petition for Peace in Palestine
- Aug 4, 2023 After Germany and Japan, Another Demand for Total Surrender
- Aug 4, 2023 Learning from the Obama Movement
- Aug 2, 2023 Oppenheimer
- Jun 28, 2023 Leading Change Network
- Jun 3, 2023 The Politics of Delusion Have Taken Hold
- May 24, 2023 China and Democracy
- May 16, 2023 Danielle Allen and Ezra Klein on A.I. and Deliberative Democracy
- Apr 8, 2023 The Left-Right Spectrum
- Mar 21, 2023 Leadership
- Feb 3, 2023 Plutocracy?
- Dec 16, 2022 The Left’s Fever Is Breaking
- Nov 5, 2022 Latin American Democratic Failures Offer Warning Signs to the U.S.
- Oct 20, 2022 How to Strangle Democracy While Pretending to Engage in It
- Oct 18, 2022 The U.S. Thinks ‘It Can’t Happen Here.’ It Already Has
- Oct 18, 2022 The Uncomfortable Truths That Could Yet Defeat Fascism
- Oct 18, 2022 Fareed Zakaria on Grassroots Democracy
- Sep 12, 2022 The Decline of Democracy Around the World
- May 2, 2022 Cultural Complementarity
- Apr 26, 2022 China's Foreign Relations
- Apr 3, 2022 The Enemies of Liberalism Are Showing Us What It Really Means
- Mar 20, 2022 Where Does American Democracy Go From Here?
- Mar 16, 2022 American "Progress" and Putin's Mysticism
- Mar 7, 2022 Ezra Klein Interviews Fareed Zakaria
- Nov 16, 2021 Self-Reform is Missing
- Aug 31, 2021 The Foreign Policy Conversation Washington Doesn’t Want to Have
- Aug 12, 2021 We’re Living in the World the War on Terror Built
- Jun 1, 2021 Ezra Klein Interview with Barack Obama
- May 18, 2021 Recasting ‘Riots’ as Black Rebellions
- May 3, 2021 Howard Thurman on Nonviolence
- Mar 1, 2021 Developing Community Voice
- Feb 18, 2021 Promoting Nonviolent Civic Activism
- Feb 18, 2021 A Gen-Z and elders alliance for an American renaissance
- Feb 10, 2021 John Dewey and Citizen Politics
- Jan 25, 2020 Reflections on Elizabeth Anderson
- Sep 13, 2019 Elizabeth Anderson: Democratic Equality
- Sep 6, 2019 Citizen University Sermons
- Sep 5, 2019 Building a “Full-Stack Society” with “New Power”
- Jul 21, 2019 Political Tribalism: “Ideologues without Issues”
- Nov 5, 2018 Plutocracy is a Myth: The System is Us
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systemic
- Feb 7, 2024 Comment on "Fluke"
- Feb 7, 2024 “Fluke” author Interview Transcript
- Feb 3, 2024 The Primary Method
- Feb 3, 2024 The Name
- Feb 3, 2024 Our Primary Problem
- Feb 3, 2024 The Mission
- Jan 29, 2024 Does “the System” exist?
- Dec 21, 2023 Growing a Systemic Reform Movement: A Call for Action
- Oct 6, 2023 Grow Compassion, Build Community, Change the System:
- Sep 25, 2023 Transforming Dysfunctional Organizations
- Sep 18, 2023 2024
- Sep 5, 2023 The Scapegoat Trap
- Aug 28, 2023 Building a Systemic Reform Movement: Unifying the Fragments
- Aug 3, 2023 Growing a Transformative Movement: Uniting for a Better Future
- Jun 15, 2023 Cultivating Compassionate Humanity
- May 8, 2023 Promoting Holistic, Systemic Transformation: A Scenario
- Feb 14, 2023 Dialogues / How important is training?
- Dec 31, 2022 Mission and Principles
- Dec 31, 2022 Goals
- Dec 11, 2022 Radicals Used to Make Change. Then Social Media Happened
- Oct 16, 2022 Liberate the True Self
- Oct 14, 2022 Countering the Domination-Submission Paradigm
- Jul 23, 2022 The Emerging Moral Humanity Movement (850 words)
- Jul 7, 2022 Moral Humanity Proclamation
- Jun 30, 2022 A Moral Humanity Manifesto (6/30/22 Draft)
- Apr 26, 2022 Form Small Teams (Copy)
- Apr 20, 2022 Shaming, Self-improvement, and Political Action
- Mar 4, 2022 Draft for a Statement of Human Obligation
- Mar 4, 2022 Draft for a Statement of Human Obligation
- Feb 28, 2022 Moving with Albert Camus Toward a Moral America
- Jan 18, 2022 Why a Paradigm Shift is Necessary
- Jan 15, 2022 Self-Reform and Political Action
- Jan 14, 2022 The Growing Democracy Project
- Nov 16, 2021 Form Small Teams
- Aug 25, 2021 Cultivating a Moral America
- Jul 10, 2021 America’s Refusal to Address the Roots of Violence
- Feb 5, 2021 Valarie Kaur with Baratunde on "How to Citizen"
- Jan 20, 2021 Amanda Gorman’s 2021 inaugural poem
- Dec 16, 2020 On Human Nature
- Dec 3, 2020 Vincent Harding Teach-In Explodes
- Mar 23, 2020 Ezra Klein and Jane McAlevey: Who's to Blame?
- Feb 8, 2020 Ezra Klein on “the Machine”
- Aug 12, 2019 George Lakey and How We Win
- Feb 25, 2019 An Argument for the Declaration
- Jun 17, 2018 A Holistic Masterpiece