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 | Oct 11, 2019 | Learning, Uncategorized
Dear TNS Friends: We authentically need your help. For many years we have managed our modest TNS budget with the support of a few core funders and generous small contributions from many of you. Over the past few years, our wonderful core funders (deep gratitude to...
by Michael Lerner | Aug 31, 2015 | Learning, Uncategorized
Dear New School Friends, Often I write to you about things that interest me — like my last post on whether beauty will save the world. I rarely write to you about New School conversations. But let’s look at seven recent TNS conversations: Actor and Zen...
by Michael Lerner | Jul 1, 2015 | Learning, Uncategorized
I’ve been looking back on eight years of The New School. When we started in 2007, I thought we’d mostly tape phone conversations. Then it turned out that people liked to hear the conversations live. At first a dozen or so people would turn up. Over eight...
