Food, China, and Robots: 5 Articles to Read This Week (and Why)
1. The Whole Foods Diet The first item on this list is a personal one. Those who know me well have heard me talk about this project for the last year or so. It is a book that I played a role in creating. I learned a great deal, and I’m proud to be a part of it. I hope...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 was a mystic scholar, deeply connected to the traditions he studied,...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 “evolutionary” and why should we care? An evolutionary is a broad category for...
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 force in society. It would be called “Is God a Pacifist?” and...Subscribe to THINKING AHEAD Podcast
They pepper-sprayed a parent? Trying to process this response...
“They set up a perimeter around the building.”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/uvalde-residents-voice-frustration-over-shooting-response-11653588161
Wow, someone is feeling the pressure...
Prediction: CA boomers will go Republican before they allow upzoning. https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/newsom-housing-17188515.php
@carter_phipps has a new article in The Developmentalist entitled: Can We Make Governing Great Again? In it, he argues that we have lost our faith in experts in part because we have unfairly shifted the burden of decision making to them.
Read it here: https://developmentalist.org/article/can-we-make-governing-great-again/
