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...
by Michael Lerner | Feb 1, 2023 | Uncategorized
Dear New School Friends: I want to thank each of you who contributed, or continued to contribute, to The New School in 2022. You’ve made a critical contribution to our work. It’s never too late to add your support. So if you intended to contribute, or are...
by Michael Lerner | Nov 30, 2022 | Commonweal, Uncategorized
Dear Commonweal Friends, I hope this letter finds each of you as well as you can be in these tumultuous times. Oren Slozberg: A Leader for Commonweal In September, I turned over the helm at Commonweal to my beloved friend and partner Oren Slozberg. Oren has worked...
by Michael Lerner | Nov 4, 2022 | Uncategorized
Dear New School Friends, Call the world, if you please, “the Vale of Soul Making,” [wrote the poet John Keats to a friend.] Then you will understand the use of the world. I hope this finds you as well as you can be in troubled times. Truth is, times have...
by Michael Lerner | Oct 6, 2022 | Uncategorized
Dear TNS Friends: These are the days of harvest blessings in many traditions. A good harvest was often a matter of life or death—of starvation or of plenty for the days and nights of dark and cold in the Northern Hemisphere. It is also a good time to turn inward...
by Michael Lerner | Aug 30, 2022 | Uncategorized
Dear New School Friends: Awareness of the global polycrisis is spreading everywhere now. Most often people tie the polycrisis to climate change. Fewer realize that the real challenge is the unpredictable interaction of all the global stressors—environmental, social,...
