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Being aware of the means with which we construct our reality
By
Patrick Groneman
This Photo was on the cover of the NYTimes this past Thursday morning. Photographer Doug Mills captured “a moment” of other people capturing “a moment”. In doing so he helps us understand the means by which our collective consciousness is built. The media through which we communicate will always dictate the limitations of expression, and…
Eight years later and a whole new set of hopes
By
cassmaster
With Barack Obama’s approval rating at 73%, and a public confident that he’ll deliver all the change we need, I can’t help but be reminded of another time progressives were so hopeful — or so shockingly disappointed: a little more than eight years ago, on the eve of the 2000 election. The race was close.…
Hardcore Dharma Is. And Is Not. And Therefore Also Is.
By
Julia May Jonas
“Sometimes we talk about our clothing; sometimes we talk about our body. But neither body nor clothing is actually we ourselves. We ourselves are the big activity. We are just expressing the smallest particle of the big activity,that is all. So it is all right to talk about ourselves, but actually there is no need…
Is “Smart Power” a Compassionate Foreign Policy?
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Stillman Brown
Hendrik Hertzberg’s Talk of the Town piece on the Obama administration’s new direction in foreign policy as iterated by Hillary Clinton during her Senate confirmation hearings caught my eye. He writes: Thesis: Hard Power. The kind fetishized by the outgoing Bush crowd, especially Cheney. Guns, bombs, tanks. Humvees, Hueys, M16s. All about blood…
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