We spend days, months, even years looking for answers. People who find the answer are celebrated as geniuses, prophets and inventors. The world beats...
There’s just one continuum from the neural to the social. That’s just for starters: give it time and the continuum will go all the way from cells to c...
We need an account of the redistribution - and decentralization - of power that's commensurate with a multi-scale idea of citizenship, one that adapts...
The COVID crisis is a layer on top of a turn towards authoritarianism coming out of the 2008 economic crisis. At the same time, new opportunities for...
In Buddhism, skillful means train adepts to act and respond creatively in a context. Replacing the religious concerns of Buddhism with the secular con...
Crisis needs community, or as the old saying goes: we hang together or we'll surely hang separately. Whether it's a viral epidemic or climate change,...
A couple of days ago, the UN released a report saying the COVID19 crisis is the worst crisis the world has faced since World War II. Now more people w...
The ongoing pandemic is an example of a planetary failure, i.e., the simultaneous failure of social and technical systems across the world. It's the n...
The single biggest challenge of the 21st century is planetary governance, of creating systems that help human and nonhuman beings flourish everywhere...
I have read numerous comparisons between India and Israel, of turning Kashmir into Gaza. I think they are looking for explanations where the light is...