by Michael Lerner | Jul 30, 2014 | Uncategorized
If you are in search of some summer reading (or New School podcasts for your walks and drives), here are some suggestions: Thomas Picketty, Capital in the 21st Century. Paul Krugman says “the most important economics book of the year—and maybe of the decade. ...
by Michael Lerner | May 30, 2014 | Uncategorized
On a recent trip, I visited a friend and colleague, Michael Samuels, on the island of Tinos in the Greek Mediteranean. Michael’s house is poised for flight—precipitously above a steep, terraced valley flowing down to the blue water. He built the house as a...
by Michael Lerner | May 8, 2014 | Uncategorized
Each year I come to Europe for the month of May. Work brings me here. Delight keeps me coming back, as well as curiosity about the human condition. Take personal and social risk tolerances in different cultures as an example. Everywhere in Europe I see young people...
by Michael Lerner | Mar 4, 2014 | Uncategorized
Robert McDermott is president emeritus of the California Institute of Integral Studies. His interests include wisdom philosophy, Hindu and Buddhist spiritualities, inclusive and esoteric Christianity, higher education, and Anthroposophy. We had a wonderful day-long...
by Michael Lerner | Jan 2, 2014 | Uncategorized
The new year is a time for reflections and resolutions. What do we actually know? We know that the biological fabric of life on earth is unraveling. We know that we are so profoundly altering the conditions of life that no corner of the earth is untouched. We know...
by Michael Lerner | Oct 30, 2013 | Uncategorized
Malcolm Margolin was born in a Jewish neighborhood in Dorchester outside Boston in 1940. He was a dreamy child with his nose always in a book. School bored him. A piercing intelligence pushed him forward. He graduated from Harvard, married his Radcliffe girlfriend,...
