Why comparative religion became a survival skill in the age of artificial intelligence He had handed his revolver to the captain, tried to run at the last landing, and been tied up in the cabin for it. The steamer was somewhere on the Tigris below Baghdad, carrying him back under guard. German rivals working the... Continue Reading →
The Board with Two Sets of Rules
What a disregarded inventor, a debate season, and Gil Durán’s The Nerd Reich teach us about building guardrails for the autonomous revolution. In 1903, a stenographer in Washington, DC, filed a patent for a board game she had been testing on the porches of a single-tax colony in Arden, Delaware. Her name was Elizabeth Magie. She was... Continue Reading →
Fifty-Two Million Characters
Why the autonomous revolution needs comparative religion more than another ethics framework In 1236, the government of Korea was living on an island. Five years earlier, Mongol cavalry crossed the northern border, forcing King Gojong’s court to leave the mainland capital for Ganghwa, a tidal island safe from the horsemen. On the mainland, the invaders... Continue Reading →
The Printing Press and the Pitchfork
What a forgotten massacre in 1525 can tell us about inequality, violence, and the machines we are building now. On the morning of 15 May 1525, several thousand German peasants assembled on a hillside near Frankenhausen. Their grievances were many, and, astonishingly for people of their station, they had put them into print. Two months... Continue Reading →
Imagine what can happen when millions of people decide to make positive changes. By Julie Peller Ph.D.
Green Junction Three times in two months, residents in Indiana’s northwest region were warned about destructive storms and advised to seek shelter. Each storm caused damage, and many described the destruction left behind by the third storm as the worst span of damage anyone could remember. Other areas of the state were inundated with record... Continue Reading →
The Square Is Empty. The Method Is Not.
I am writing this from an American Perspective: Why now is the moment to carry Cardijn’s vision beyond the walls of YCW and YCS. On the morning of 25 August 1957, thirty-two thousand young workers filled the piazza in front of St Peter's. They came from mines and mills, shop counters and shipyards, from Belgium, Brazil,... Continue Reading →
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