by Michael Lerner | Feb 12, 2021 | Uncategorized
Dear New School Friends: Many of you know that just over six months ago I had a life-saving surgery for an abdominal aortic aneurysm at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center. The six-month recovery was often arduous. The whole experience catapulted...
by Michael Lerner | Jan 12, 2021 | Uncategorized
Dear New School Friends: I hope the new year finds you as well as you can be. As many of you know, I had a lifesaving five-hour surgery for an abdominal aortic aneurysm at University of California San Francisco Medical Center at the end of August. The surgery and the...
by Michael Lerner | Nov 27, 2020 | Uncategorized
November 2020 Dear Commonweal Friends: I hope this personal letter finds you well. Writing weeks before you receive this letter is an almost impossible task. The Republic is at risk. Our world is changing in ways we can scarcely imagine. But Commonweal rises to meet...
by Michael Lerner | Jul 14, 2020 | Uncategorized
Dear Commonweal Friends: I hope this letter finds you well. This time has been unlike anything we have ever seen. This brave new world has all of us hard at work bringing our programs online, building our resilience infrastructure, and adapting our work to the fierce...
by Michael Lerner | Apr 5, 2020 | Uncategorized
Dear Friends, When older people greet each other from six feet away, I’ve heard them say: “I’d like a younger person to get the ventilator.” But ventilators are no panacea for COVID-19, reports National Public Radio: Most coronavirus patients who end...
by Michael Lerner | Mar 20, 2020 | Uncategorized
Loneliness, Mother Teresa said, is the poverty of the West. Never has that been more true. We are urged to “shelter in place,” away from our work, schools, friends, family, lovers, and all the places we love. Not everyone listens. The young are in the...
