by Michael Lerner | Mar 13, 2024 | Healing, Learning
Dear TNS Friends, I hope this finds you as well as possible. From the very inception of The New School (TNS), I sensed that the program would become Commonweal’s best medium for communicating with the rest of the world. And so it has proven to be. And what...
by Michael Lerner | Dec 1, 2023 | Healing
November 2023 Dear Commonweal Friends: I hope this finds you well in these difficult times. We cannot know what will be happening happening in the Middle East, Ukraine, and elsewhere as you read this letter. Wars are unpredictable. The toll in lost lives and lost...
by Michael Lerner | Jul 11, 2023 | Commonweal
Dear Commonweal Friends, I hope this finds you well. This is my summer letter to the Commonweal community. It comes at a special point in our history. This year I turn 80. Our executive director, Oren Slozberg, turns 60. And it’s 50 years since I co-founded Full...
by Michael Lerner | Apr 19, 2023 | Justice
Dear Friends: How can we explain the explosive emergence of global awareness of the polycrisis over the past year, 2022-2023? Three years ago, almost no one had heard of the polycrisis. What happened? What Is the Polycrisis? First, let’s roughly define the...
by Michael Lerner | Mar 8, 2023 | Uncategorized
Dear TNS Friends, What a strange time. Awareness of the global polycrisis—whatever we choose to call it—is deepening across the country and around the world. We’ve formally launched our new website, omega.ngo. You can sign up to get Stanley Wu’s highly...
