Hi, I’m Michael Johnson and I have a question for you. If you are concerned about how our democracy is doing, do you think about how it needs fixing or how we can grow it, even grow it exponentially? 

For quite a while David Sloan Wilson has been demonstrating how evolutionary thinking is an eminently practical way of thinking about everyday life and the legions of problems and dilemmas we struggle...

In The Therapy Journal, Steve Wineman gives us a novel about sexual trauma that is deeply relevant to all social change agents both in their practice and in the strategies they work from. It’s a good ...

A Book Review of Otto Scharmer’s The Essentials of Theory U: Core Principles and Applications with drawings by Kelvy Bird, also of the Presencing Institute. Scharmer presents an innovative framework f...

In producing their book Why Does Patriarchy Persist Carol Gilligan and Naomi Snider doggedly pursued the mystery of why our patriarchal ways of living and relating endure with such tenacity when they ...

Living in community and being involved in collective action in all its forms puts one right in the middle of what blocks the development of cooperation and mutuality. What an advantage this can be! Pe...

Here I discuss how a staunch conservative of the American variety, Luke Phillips of the Braver Angels organization, lays out his radical approach to what he calls “depolarization.”

I struggle to genuinely listen to people who say things that either piss me off or that I deeply disagree with. I was really touched by some words of Cornel West in an interview with George Yancy.

Ella Baker is a black woman who played as major a role in the Black Freedom Movement throughout the mid-20th century, including the Civil Rights Movement. In this NYTimes op-ed her biographer, Barbara...

An exceptional discussion between Cornel West, black socialist, and Glen Loury, black capitalist. It was a feast of joy, intelligence, laughter, insight, challenge, vulnerability, scholarly knowledge,...