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?
2010
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.
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.
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.
2010
After the Reform
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Did we fail on health care? The debate is vigorous. Richard Kirsch and Lauren Reichelt respond.
2010
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.
2010
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.
2010
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.
2010
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?
2010
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?
2010
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.
2010
The Future of God — and Secularism
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The future of God depends on the future of secularism. Most people will hear in that sentiment a prediction about the growth of secularism: If secularism grows, belief in God will commensurately shrink. If secularism stagnates, the world will continue to believe in God in 2100.
2010
A Universe Struggling to Become Aware?
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Without the compassion that arises when we realize our nonduality — empathy not only with other humans but with the planet — it becomes increasingly likely that civilization as we know it will not survive the next few centuries.
2011
Healing Is Not a Business
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Of the advanced nations, the United States has the highest number of preventable deaths. Why is this? It’s because we are the only advanced nation that thinks of patients as consumers and health as a commodity to be bought on the market. It’s because we have tried to fit medicine into a business model.