Tag: society

Inclusionary social movements attempt to “widen the ‘we.’”

Most crises trace back to identifiable decisions and actions. Even the lead-up to the two world wars could have been disrupted numerous...

We speak to Sherene Seikaly and Barbara Weinstein, two scholars who supported the resolution and helped push for the groundbreaking vote.

By making small differences where we can, we gradually move society toward the more equitable, just, and fair place we all want for ourselves and future generations.

Do we need, some observers of our fraying social fabric suggest, more people in public life noble enough to champion basic ethical norms?

Without a shared sense of common good, there can be no “we” to begin with.

Are we already all too close to the edge of the kind of systemic failure experienced so many centuries ago by the Mayans, the ancient Puebloans, and the Viking Greenlanders?

Apathy!! Add that one to the list of: Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Sloth, Wrath, Envy and Pride.

“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death."

Humanity must find ways to make itself more humane and less human.