Arlene Goldbard urges you to read Asad Haider’s book, Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump, a masterful guide to what’s not working in progressive political culture and why.
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Memorial Day
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Valerie Elverton Dixon reflects on Memorial Day: “The dead do not need us. We need them. We need their deathless radical love.”
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The Performance of Privilege and Unmerited Overconfidence
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Arlene Goldbard skips over the Big Baby in the White House to explore even more powerful examples of the impact of privilege and entitlement on our common culture.
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The Powers No One Can Take Away From Us
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Miki Kashtan writes about two powers that absolutely no one can take away from us, even under extreme circumstances.
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Mothers’ Day, Power, and the Holiness of Woman
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Valerie Elverton Dixon argues that Mothers’ Day ought to be a day of solidarity among women to insist upon their right and their power to decide if and when to give the gift of birth.
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Americans want to give women paid family leave time
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A recent poll by the Independent Women’s Forum shows that the majority of Americans, regardless of political party, support federal paid leave policy.
Politics & Society
Anatomy of a Trump Supporter
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Peter Gabel argues that Trump supporters are not voting against their interest “but rather that their interests are different from what the critics think they are.”
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Twenty Years Ago, When Columbine Happened
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The 20th anniversary of Columbine reminds us that we each have to do the hard soul work, the hard spiritual work of radical love.
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What is Really Happening in Venezuela?
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Laura Wells recalls her most recent trip to Venezuela, highlighting the unity and ‘strength of the people’ she witnessed as a result of national hardships.
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Who Gets to Define Anti-Semitism?
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Ron Hirschbein and Amin Asfari argue that “[n]ot all Semites are Jews, and not all Jews are Semites” in this commentary on the semantics of anti-Semitism.
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A Hindu Reflects on Passover
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Sunita Viswanath embraces the central teaching of Hinduism, “the whole world is one family,” in this story of connecting with her new Jewish family-in-law.
Restoring the Flow of Gifting in Community
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Miki Kashtan writes about designing systems for collectively rediscovering our embeddedness within a larger whole, where care for the whole includes and flows within and from all of us.
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The truth about the “campus free speech” crusade and its myths that won’t die
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Jim Sleeper argues that the cause of recent student outbursts is “the emptiness of a ‘retail-store university'” where students are customers, not citizens.
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Can We Un-Skew Resource Distribution?
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Miki Kashtan explores what we need to re-discover, re-invent, and re-create to hold, together, a complex situation of limited resources that cannot possibly address all the known needs.
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A Letter to Christian Clergy on Same-Sex Marriage
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Valerie Elverton Dixon argues ‘that same sex marriage is a question of equal protection under the law’ which opposes the stance of the United Methodist Church.