DEI Opinion Piece
The Detroit News published an Opinion I submitted on DEI. It's behind a paywall. A brief summary of the article: While DEI initiatives...
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Joyful Warriors: A New Standard of Leadership
In the 2024 U.S. Presidential race, Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, embraced the term...
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Fate of Democracy
Happy Independence (Liberation) Day)! Our nation and humanity as a whole now stand at a critical juncture. The specter of global...
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Campus protests and using the RRP
Critical Updates on the Israel-Gaza conflict: Biden's refusal to supply weapons for the assault on Rafah. Thomas Friedman's important...
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Nurturing Informed Discourse Without Giving Voice to Fringe Elements
Today's media landscape includes trained journalists and self-styled influencers, edutainers, and the many supporters of one view or...
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Government’s Role in Helping Us Live More Purposefully
The New Republic This provides a nice summary of what government can do to help create the conditions for people to live more...
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Conspiracy Theories Reflect Erroneous Values, Not Feeble Intellect
Watching the documentary The Truth vs Alex Jones made me realize that intellectual curiosity isn’t neutral but values-driven. It can be...
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Creating Our Culture's "Death Story"
Human beings must become more adept at dying. When we recognize the temporality of forms—our bodies, institutions, ideologies,...
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What It Means to Be (Hu)Man: Understanding Our Planetary Responsibility
What it means to be (Hu)Man (Transcript) The Sanskrit root "man" means to think. Therefore, man or a human being is a Thinker, embodying...
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How to stop evil and those whose intent is to perpetuate it through humanity and upon our planet
Mantram for the Common Good Let us trust in the Good, work for the Good, live for the Good, will the Good for the Common Good. We must...
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What is the government's role in our Happiness?
Watch Senator Chris Murphy reporting on the 2024 World Happiness Report. There are lots of reasons for that [the catastrophic decline in...
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The Individual vs The Common Good: Responding to antisocial behavior with inclusive (prosocial) action
Responding to antisocial behavior through inclusive social action stops the harm in ways that help establish or restore right relations.
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Bridge-Building
We must learn to build bridges between people, cultures, ideologies, and nations in times of war and peace. The Buddha instructed us to...
