by Michael Lerner | Oct 12, 2017 | Commonweal, Uncategorized
Dear Friends, The confluence of catastrophes that have been circling the globe has landed in Northern California with disastrous fire losses in Sonoma, Napa, and Mendocino Counties. Commonweal has many friends, Cancer Help Program alumni, staff, and board members in...
by Michael Lerner | Aug 24, 2017 | Uncategorized
The Noise of Time is the title of a novel by Julian Barnes based on the life of the Russian composer Dimitri Shostakovitch. Here is the beginning of an elegant review in The Guardian: Julian Barnes’s last novel, the Man Booker-winning The Sense of an Ending (2011),...
by Michael Lerner | Jun 27, 2017 | Uncategorized
Dear New School Friends, A 79-foot young female blue whale washed up dead near Agate Beach in Bolinas on Friday, May 26. For our community, it was one of the most significant events in the 45 years I have lived here. A lot of us felt deep grief about her death —...
by Michael Lerner | May 30, 2017 | Uncategorized
Friends: I am back in Paris at the end of this month-long European journey. I’ve also been in Brussels, Geneva, Cardiff, and Amsterdam. We’re working to promote trade treaties that protect people and planet. We are also working to preserve Europe’s unique...
by Michael Lerner | May 15, 2017 | Uncategorized
I left Paris on Sunday, May 10, the day of the presidential election. The election had two rounds. Emmanuel Macron and Marine LePen qualified for the final round. Macron, like Hillary Clinton, defeated the left candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon, the equivalent of Bernie...
