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RIP Huston Smith
A great man passed away a few days ago, in the last days of 2016. Huston Smith, the brilliant scholar of religion and author of the seminal work, The World’s Religions, died at the age of 97. Smith...
Working with Polarities
Talking to transpartisan activists at the Mediators Foundation about working with polarities last year, representing the Institute for Cultural Evolution ...
The Role of Evolutionary Thinking in Modern Culture — An Interview
Recently I was interviewed for the Journal of Communicative and Integrative Biology, by author Tam Hunt. A preview of the result is below. The entire interview can be found here. What is an...
A Mario Cuomo Story
In 2004 I was writing my first major long-form journalism piece, a very ambitious 25,000 word article on the nature of peace, war, the politics of non-violence, and how we think about the use of...
Tackling Political Polarization: An Unconventional Gathering
Perched on a narrow stretch of the Big Sur Pacific coastline, Esalen Institute is about as far away as you can get from the Washington DC and still be in the same country—geographically, but also...
Breathless in Babylon: Economic Dislocation Never Looked So Good
A Review of The Zero Marginal Cost Society by Jeremy Rifkin Declaring the end of capitalism has long been it’s own mini intellectual industry. And with the economic adversity brought on by the Great...
The Rise of the High Net Worth Individual (HNWI)
There are times in life and history when economics takes a backseat to other ways of conceiving the human experience. Not today. In second decade of the new millennium, the headlines scream of...
New Year’s Thoughts
Happy New Year! Out with 2013, in with the new. Let’s all hope 2014 will be better in all kinds of ways. Maybe the economy will finally get some liftoff. Perhaps those in Washington will finally...
Economics and Technology — Heavenly Match or Dangerous Duo?
In our post Great Recession world, it is difficult to think deeply about the future of culture without considering economics realities. While there are many ways to look at the economic disruptions...
Follow the Money!
A Review of Michael Lewis's Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World The world of Global Finance can be maddeningly frustrating to understand. Unfortunately, its complexity is not matched by its...
Doubling Down on Guns
It’s been a double dose of disaster the last few days, watching events unfold from Boston to Washington. First the horror at the Boston marathon, and then the decision by the highest deliberative...
Q&A with Steve McIntosh
Below are five questions and answers with philosopher, author, and the co-founder of the Institute of Cultural Evolution, Steve McIntosh. Why did you write Evolution's Purpose? After my first book,...
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