Michael Lerner will go down in history as one of our country’s great thinkers.
Politics & Society
Hating Jews—the Enduring Curse
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Anti-Semitism is a critical issue for every ethically sensitive human being.
35.1 Spring/Summer
From Ability to Willingness: Freeing Socialism from Its Patriarchal Roots
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Miki Kashtan re-imagines socialism freed from its patriarchal roots.
35.1 Spring/Summer
Getting Off the Marxist Dime
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Peter Gabel argues it is time to let go of the notion that the economy is something separate from us and instead see it is a manifestation of fear of the Other.
35.1 Spring/Summer
What is Socialism Today?
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Ron Aronson reviews the book “The Socialist Manifesto” by Bhaskar Sunkara and argues that socialism is really a change in consciousness.
35.1 Spring/Summer
Love: A Call to Action
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Cat Zavis reflects on the outpouring of love to honor that Black lives in fact do matter.
35.1 Spring/Summer
Spiritualized Socialism and Socialist Humility
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Martha Sonnenberg helps bring clarity to what socialism actually means and re-envisions a new psychological and spiritually infused socialism.
35.1 Spring/Summer
Towards a Trauma-Informed Socialism
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Josh Lown argues that the way to crush fascism is with a revolutionary politics of compassion.
34.2 Spring/Summer
The Decision of Decolonization
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Considering the Nubian people’s dilemma after the Egyptian revolution of 2011, Hatem Hassan reflects on the obstacles of decolonization: “Moments of political rupture and state transition […] require groups to reconsider decolonization as a set of strategic decisions.”
34.2 Spring/Summer
Tale of the Modern Refugee
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Lipika Pelham considers modern refugees’ defiance in the face of their host societies’ norms and expectations: “What individual and group identities mean to the migrants must be decided by them only.”
Emancipatory Spirituality
A Cry from the Heart: A Response from Beyond
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Cat Zavis responds to our world-in-crisis: “The way to manifest your sacredness is to embody sacredness – to treat all life as sacred.”
Beyond Patriarchy: An Unexpected Encounter
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Jihan McDonald shares a story of an unexpected encounter with strangers in a store that forces the author and all of us to look beyond patriarchy, its binary categories, and the way it keeps us separate from the stranger/other and the Earth itself. “I must get away from HISstory and HERstory and get into THISstory: this story that the Earth is telling itself through us, this story that the Earth is telling the Universe through us, and vice versa.”
Animal Allies: Healing and Empowering Children
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Brenda Peterson shares a personal interaction she has with young students in which a tribal method of storytelling surprisingly becomes a method for healing and empowering the children. “When children claim another species as not only their imaginary friends, but also as the animal within them—an ally—doesn’t that change the outer world?”
34.1 Winter
Beyond Patriarchy: What to Do with the Legacy of Trauma and Fear
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Rabbi Tirzah Firestone delves deeply into the legacy of fear and trauma that is left in the wake of patriarchy, and argues that, if we are to heal from this trauma, we must reclaim the connections between body-knowing and cerebral understanding, individual and community, and personal and collective memory. Her analysis provides an opportunity for both personal and societal healing that can move us to a more loving future.
Taking Back Christmas from the Capitalist Marketplace
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Rabbi Lerner calls upon Christians to take back Christmas from the grasp of the capitalist marketplace.