Jeremy Lent: The Web of Meaning Jeremy Lent returns to The Commonwealth Club to discuss the ideas in his new book, which weaves together the latest scientific findings with age-old philosophical [...] Read more

Western views and the legal system tend to view nature as property, and as a resource from which wealth is extracted, a commodity whose only value is to provide for human needs. But for millennia [...] Read more

Click here to access A Life of One’s Own: A Penetrating Century-Old Field Guide to Self-Possession, Mindful Perception, and the Art of Knowing What You Really Want One must know what one wants to be [...] Read more

In The Death of the Liberal Class (Nation Books, 2010), Pulitzer‑prize‑winning journalist Chris Hedges charts the slow unraveling of the American liberal tradition—the coalition [...] Read more

Indigenous academic Leroy Little Bear compares the foundational base of Blackfoot knowledge to quantum physics to an attentive audience at The Banff Centre as part of the Indigenous Knowledge and [...] Read more

The Self Under Siege - Rick Roderick I. The task of creating a life with the "self under siege" to the degree I have argued may seem impossible. At the very least, it calls for what Baudrillard calls [...] Read more

Biological Experiment [...] Read more

In his teisho, David Loy leads us through a consideration of the stories that many of the world’s religions tell. They are stories which give priority to a world separate from this one, held out as [...] Read more

Exploring the history of the Amazon and its peoples: an interview with John Hemming Dr. John Hemming is a legendary author and historian who has spent the past six decades documenting the history of [...] Read more

Martha C. Nussbaum’s Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions advances a radical claim: emotions are not irrational eruptions that cloud judgment but cognitively rich appraisals [...] Read more