Can we scare criminals into being good? A look into a new attempt at crime prevention.
Rethinking Religion
Self Transformation, Social Transformation
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Traditional Buddhism is a spiritual path for individuals, not a platform for social change — yet is it always clear where one ends and the other begins?
Jewish Wisdom
Philosophers of Catastrophe and the Last Kantian in Nazi Germany: How Judaism Redeems Western Philosophy
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A death-camp dog knew better than many philosophers. It took Jews like Rosenzweig and Levinas to point out the flaw and the remedy.
Vol 25.3 MayJun 2010
Are Israeli Policies Entrenching Anti-Semitism Worldwide?
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Critical discussions of Israeli policy are too often tarred as “anti-Semitism” and shut down. In reality, holding Israel to an ethical standard is necessary to stem a rising tide of real anti-Semitism.
Vol 25.3 MayJun 2010
The Machiavellian Dilemma
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Has the Obama presidency failed? No, resistance to social and political change
is not a sign of failure—it’s inevitable, and can be overcome.
Politics & Society
After the Reform
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Did we fail on health care? The debate is vigorous. Richard Kirsch and Lauren Reichelt respond.
Z Archive
Spirituality in a Time of Crisis
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It’s not self-sacrifice but liberation that the Tao and all deep spiritual wisdom offer us.
Facing climate change, we must free ourselves or collapse.
Ecological Transformation
How Much Change Will the Earth Require of Us?
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We will be so much better off psychologically when we give up our dreams of mastery
and come back to living within nature.
Ecological Transformation
Naturalism as Mastery?
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Traditional environmentalists’ “humility” is overrated: we have all too often made the world’s
poor and powerless pay for our environmental progress.
Articles
Humility in a Climate Age
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Can the ambitious new environmental geo-engineering be suffused with a humble
awareness of our place within nature’s complexity?
Eco-Spirituality
Introduction to Special Section
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For the scientifically well-informed, there’s a seriously bleak quality in the air around global warming and other environmental threats. To avert the multiple foreseen catastrophes will require heroic measures. But which measures have a chance of working?
Race
Immigration: Don’t Let “Reform” Be an Excuse for Increased Repression
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. . . it relies on the idea of providing temporary worker visas to lower-skilled immigrants who are apparently expected to send their money home, providing American farmers, agribusiness, and other employers with a source of cheap labor that can depress the wages of other laborers.
US Politics
Liberals and Progressives Need a New Strategy in the Obama Years
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Yet what the critics maintain is that Obama and congressional Democrats, inheriting an economy and political system in crisis after decades of ideological Republican policies committed to downsizing government and serving the tax-cutting interests of the rich and the corporate elites, blew a unique opportunity to teach Americans a new way of thinking about politics and economy.
US Politics
The Politics of Holding on to Health Care Reform
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The Left has been left whimpering that health care reform did not go far enough, that we should adopt “Medicare for All.” But the claim that this bill is middle-of-the-road or too pragmatic has not found any significant public sentiment and fails in the face of the financial pressure on government.