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Overview of the Institute for Cultural Evolution’s Climate Change Policy Proposal The original impetus for the founding of the Institute for Cultural Evolution in 2012 was to help reduce [...]

From February through April this year I taught a Zoom course on post-progressive politics, which was attended live by over 40 participants. Now the course is available to take on video. Clips of [...]

Polarity number four is MERCY & JUSTICE. Mercy for the individual becomes unjust without concern for the good of the whole. And to be truly virtuous, justice must be balanced with care for [...]

Polarity number three is COMPETITION & COOPERATION. While some progressives disparage competition, and some modernists overemphasize it, competition can be a powerful value creator. However, [...]

Polarity number two is REAL & IDEAL. While this pair may at first seem prosaic or obvious, it is highly useful and applicable to many life situations. Without the moderation and challenge of [...]

This post begins a new series of my favorite positive-positive interdependent polarities. Each one of these polarities is a kind of philosophical technology for creating value and evolving [...]

In this column I offer constructive critiques of public figures I admire by pointing out how they could benefit from a developmental perspective. The Atlantic Magazine recently published a [...]

I’m excited to announce the launch of my latest work: THE POST-PROGRESSIVE POST www.post-progressive.org Cocreated with Josh Leonard and the Institute for Cultural Evolution. Here is the 300 word [...]

Journalist George Packer’s recent article in The Atlantic entitled, How America Fractured Into Four Parts, validates my analysis of the polarities within the left and right. Below are the latest [...]

Tom Amarque’s Parallax Magazine recently hosted me on their political discussion forum. I think “Strange Attractor” is an apt title for this group. Here is their description: [...]