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SOCIAL: What Mutual Aid Can Do During a Pandemic, Jia Tolentino. “A radical practice is suddenly getting mainstream attention. Will it change how we help one another?” Nancy L. Rosenbaum, Good Neighbors: The Democracy of Everyday Life in America author, believes that both grassroots citizen mobilization and top-down technocratic and political actions are needed. Rebecca Solnit, A Paradise Built in Hell author, believes mutual-aid projects can have a lasting effect on consciousness after crises pass and the project close down.
What Kind of Country Do We Want?, Marilynne Robinson. “…it is in fact an anthropology, a theory of human nature and motivation. It comes down to the idea that the profit motive applies in literally every circumstance, inevitably, because it is genetic in its origins and its operations. ‘Selfishness,’ its exponents call it,…”
What’s Behind the Nursing Home Horror, Charles C. Camosy. “After decades of mistreatment, older Americans are bearing the worst of the pandemic…. If we do take a hard look, we may change more than just the way we treat older Americans. We may, along the way, find a way to push against throwaway culture in all its forms.”
The Sheer Number of School Districts Is Tilting the Playing Field, Rebecca Sibilia. “Changing their borders would go a long way toward getting public school money where it most needs to be.”
EdBuild — “a nonprofit organization focused on bringing common sense and fairness to the way states fund public schools.”
”Without Fixing Inequality, the Schools are Always Going to Struggle,” Eight public school teachers. “Our cities’ teachers on how children’s neighborhoods at birth shape their lives.”
America’s Cities Could House Everyone, if They Chose To, Binyamin Appelbaum. “Our housing crisis is a symptom of America’s wealth, and its indifference.”
Beyond Conflict. For 27 years, Beyond Conflict has created powerful and innovative frameworks to open pathways for progress in peace talks, transitions to democracy, and national reconciliation in the aftermath of division and violence in over 75 countries.
How Democrats Became Liberals and Republicans Became Conservatives, Ezra Klein. Chapter One from Why We’re Polarized.
The Book That Shaped Foreign Policy for a Generation Has More to Say, Barry Gewen. This commentary on Politics Among Nations, the landmark 1948 book by Hans J. Morgenthau, falls short, but it’s a good summary of the view that “the job of the statesman [is] to preserve his country’s security” rather than promote “abstract, universal values.”
Questions of Bias in Covid-19 Treatment Add to the Mourning for Black Families, John Eligon and Audra D. S. Burch. “The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have advised health professionals to be on the lookout for medical bias. … Decades of research shows that black patients receive inferior medical care to white patients.”
No Return to the ‘Old Dispensation’, Roger Cohen. “The monster of modernity must be slowed.... Perhaps rebalancing is a useful word because attempts at wholesale reinvention, like those utopias, tend to end badly. From consumption to contemplation, from global to local, from outward to inward, from aggression to compassion, from stranger to guest, from frenzy to stillness, from carbon to green.”
SNF Agora Institute — integrates research, teaching, and practice to strengthen global democracy by improving and expanding civic engagement and inclusive dialogue, and by supporting inquiry that leads to real-world change.
We Knew the Coronavirus Was Coming, Yet We Failed, Elisabeth Rosenthal. “The vulnerabilities that Covid-19 has revealed were a predictable outgrowth of our market-based health care system.
“The Free and te Brave,” Lecture by James Baldwin, April 1963
The Equality That Wasn’t Enough, Jamelle Bouie. The most radical Radical Republicans had a better idea of how to cast the 15th Amendment. We should have listened to them.
Critique vs. Criticism Thomas P Seager, PhD — How to give good feedback and still benefit from bad.
Ezra Klein’s Core Problem, Wade Lee Hudson — “For several months I’ve regularly listened to the Ezra Klein Show podcast…. Recently I’ve been participating in a lively subreddit, r/ezraklein,… On April 23, I posted the following essay,… it’s received more upvotes than down, and many of the comments have been helpful or informative.”
The Human Crisis, Albert Camus — “If the features of this crisis are the will to power, terror, the replacement of real man by political and historical man, the reign of abstraction and fatality, and solitude without a future, then these are the features we have to change to resolve this crisis.”
What Will Our New Normal Feel Like? Hints Are Beginning to Emerge, Max Fisher
”Fear of others may linger long after the pandemic is over. But so may a new sense of community.”The America We Need, New York Times Editorial Board
Are We All in This Together?, Michael J. Sandel. “The pandemic has helpfully scrambled how we value everyone’s economic and social roles.”
Conservatives Have Been Suppressing the Vote for 150 Years, David W. Blight — “Trump is only the latest to see minority voters as a threat.”
A Politician Takes a Sledgehammer to His Own Ego, Frank Bruni — “Just in time for Easter, the story of a blind state leader who is giving up his office to join the Jesuits.”
Lessons in Constructive Solitude from Thoreau, Holland Cotter — “Finally, he used his set-aside time at Walden to clarify his political thinking. For Thoreau, revolution began at home, one person at a time. ‘We must first succeed alone,’ he wrote, ‘that we may enjoy our success together.’”
Need a Job? Just Call Bernie. Kevin Drum — a critique of Sanders federally guaranteed jobs proposal
Thomas Piketty Goes Global, Idrees Kahloon — “Now that the celebrity economist’s boldest ideas have been adopted by mainstream politicians, he has an even more provocative vision for transcending capitalism and overcoming our ‘inequality regime.’” Concludes with some of Kahloon’s proposed reforms that “fall short of revolution.”
We Were Planning an Inequality Project. Then History Lurched, James Bennet
What is it about Random Selection??, Tom Atlee
What We Pretend to Know About the Coronavirus Could Kill Us, Charlie Warzel
Researching Holistic Democracy in Schools, Phillip Woods
Promoting Global Transformation with Holistic Democracy, Wade Lee Hudson
Ezra Klein and Jane McAlevey: Who’s To Blame?, Wade Lee Hudson
The Equality Conundrum, Joshua Rothman
Dan Pfeiffer and Ezra Klein Dialog, Wade Lee Hudson
Draft Declaration for Holistic Democracy, Wade Lee Hudson
Your Kids’ Coach Is Probably Doing It Wrong, Jennifer L. Etnier
How Will Trump’s Supreme Court Remake America?, Emily Bazelon
Barbara Ehrenreich on the Middle Class, Ezta Klein Show
Can We Have Prosperity Without Growth?, John Cassidy
The Future of Democracy, a New Yorker series
This Is How Scandinavia Got Great, David Brooks
The Changing Meaning of Affirmative Action, Louis Menand
What Is Animal Cruelty and How Can We Stop it For Good?, Sentient Media
Report from Down Under, Yahya Abdal-Aziz
Ezra Klein on “the Machine”: An Interview
When Does Activism Become Powerful?, Hahrie Han
Presidents, Revolution, and Organizing, Wade Lee Hudson
Reflections on Elizabeth Anderson, Wade Lee Hudson
You Are Now Remotely Controlled, Shoshana Zuboff
Guaranteed Public Service Employment, Wade Lee Hudson
The Injustice of This Moment Is Not an ‘Aberration’, Michelle Alexander
Guaranteed Jobs Through a Public Service Employment Program, Randall Wray
How to topple dictators and transform society (with Erica Chenoweth), Ezra Klein Show
What Would Jesus Do About Inequality?, Molly Worthen
Racial Healing: Rhonda Magee, Wade Lee Hudson
Holistic Democracy, Philip Wood
Researching Holistic Democracy in Schools, Philip A. Woods
“Holistic Democracy” and Citizen Motivation To Use a More Holistic Approach to Public Decision Making, Jan Inglis
Jimmy Carter’s ‘malaise’ speech was popular!, Ezra Klein (the speech)
Face-to-Face Democracy, Wade Lee Hudson
Nonviolence, mutliple entries
Why Progressive Candidates Should Invoke Conservative Values, Robb Willer and Jan Voelkel
Liberals Do Not Want to Destroy the Family, Thomas B. Edsall
Left-Right, Top-Down, or Multiple Identities?, Wade Lee Hudson
How to Break the Poverty Cycle, David L. Kirp
Capitalism on Trial in Chile, The Daily podcast
The ‘Lost Cause’ That Built Jim Crow, Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
A Multi-axial Analysis of the Left-Right Opposition, Peter Caws, in Left and Right: The Great Dichotomy Revisited, edited by João Cardoso Rosas, Ana Rita Ferreira, pp. 38-46.
Them: Why We Hate Each Other—And How to Heal (2018), Benn Sasse (see review)
Beyond the Valley: How Innovators around the World are Overcoming Inequality and Creating the Technologies of Tomorrow, Ramesh Srinivasan (2019) (see review)
The Black-and-White World of Big Tech, Kara Swisher
Democracy Isn’t Dead; We’ve Barely Tried It, Malka Older
The Democrats: Technocrats Rule, by Wade Lee Hudson.
Private Authoritarianism, by Wade Lee Hudson
Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don’t Talk about It), Elizabeth Anderson
The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay (2019), Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman
How to Tax Our Way Back to Justice, Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman
The Rich Really Do Pay Lower Taxes Than You, David Leonhardt
The Radical Guidebook Embraced by Google Workers and Uber Drivers, Noam Scheiber
A Stump Speech, by Wade Lee Hudson
Political/Public Opinion Data: Democrats should run on the popular progressive ideas, but not the unpopular ones Matthew Yglesias.
Systemic/Essays: Transforming the System (edited), Wade Lee Hudson
Political/Criminal Justice: Campaign Zero
Environmental/Activism: SustainUS | US Youth for Justice and Sustainability
Environmental/Activism: Fridays for Future
Cultural/Multi-issue/Articles: Superfans: A Love Story, Michael Schulman — From “Star Wars” to “Game of Thrones,” fans have more power than ever to push back. But is fandom becoming as toxic as politics?
Social/Proposals: Community Dialogs
Social/Proposals: Community Workshops
Political/Books: Adam Gopnik: Liberalism. The “Left,” and the “Right, Adam Gopnik.
Cultural/Multi-issue/Articles: George the Poet Is Pushing Podcasting’s Limits, Tara Joshi
Systemic/Essays: Humanism and Its Aspirations: Humanist Manifesto III
Politics/Proposals: Community Dialogs with Elected Officials (edited)
Social/Relationships/Services: Free Intelligent Conversations
Environment/Activism: Future Coalition
The Democrats: What Happened to Equality?, Wade Lee Hudson
(review of “What is the Point of Equality?”, Elizabeth S. Anderson)State of the Unions, Caleb Crain
My Story: Peer-to-Peer Community (Part One), Wade Lee Hudson.
Citizen University Sermons, Wade Lee Hudson
Soteria (psychiatric treatment), wikipedia
Interventions to Prevent Psychosis, Jane E. Brody
What Ails the Right Isn’t (Just) Racism, Conor Friedersdorf
Building a “Full-Stack Society” with “New Power,” Wade Lee Hudson
New Power: How Power Works in Our Hyperconnected World—and How to Make It Work for You, 2018, Jeremy Heiman & Henry Timms (see review)
As Grass-Roots Labor Activism Rises, Will Unions Take Advantage?, Noam Scheiber
Evolutionary Transformation, Systemopedia Principles.
Should Work Be Passion, or Duty?, Firmin DeBrabander
Become America: Civic Sermons on Love, Responsibility, and Democracy, 2019, Eric Liu
Identity Politics and Social Movements, Wade Lee Hudson
Politicians, Movements, and Democracy, Wade Lee Hudson
Systemic/Advocacy: Helena
Transforming the Democratic Party, Wade Lee Hudson
Reviving the American Working Class, New York Times Editorial Board
Community Dialogs, Wade Lee Hudson
Purple Alliances, Wade Lee Hudson
Holistic Support Groups: A Global Network, Wade Lee Hudson
Racism and Support for Trump, Wade Lee Hudson
We Aren’t Seeing White Support for Trump for What It Is, Thomas B. Edsall
Joy, Anger, Polarity, and Transcendence, Wade Lee Hudson
Groundbreakers: How Obama's 2.2 Million Volunteers Transformed Campaigning in America, Elizabeth McKenna, Hahrie Han (see “The Trump Campaign Knows Why Obama Won. Do Democrats?”, Joy Cushman)
Revolutionary Ideas: An Introduction to Legal and Political Philosophy — a free, online, open-to-all Coursera course.
“Are bosses dictators? (With Elizabeth Anderson),” Ezra Klein Show
An Open Letter to Cory Booker, Wade Lee Hudson
Old Brain, New Brain, Cross-Partisan Dialog, Penn Garvin, Lois Passi, Wade Lee Hudson
Restructuring Democracy, Wade Lee Hudson
Proposals for restructuring democracy, Wade Lee Hudson
Made systemopedia.org the primary domain. (TransformTheSystem.org links now point there.)
A review of Equality Beyond Debate: John Dewey's Pragmatic Idea of Democracy, Matthew Festenstein
Equality Beyond Debate: John Dewey's Pragmatic Idea of Democracy, Jeff Jackson
Identity Politics, Stacey Abrams
George Lakey and How to Win, Wade Lee Hudson
Mutual Support for Self-Improvement, Wade Lee Hudson
YouTube channel: Interviews with Bernhard Possert, Penn Garvin, and Wade Lee Hudson
New tagline: Dedicated to compassionate community
Astra Taylor will change how you think about democracy, Ezra Klein Show
What is Democracy?, Astra Taylor
Religion, Spirituality, and the 2020 Election, Wade Lee Hudson
Political/Organizing — multiple books added
Yes, America Is Rigged Against Workers, Steven Greenhouse
The Troubled History of Psychiatry, Jerome Groopman
The Challenge of Going Off Psychiatric Drugs, Rachel Aviv
Psychiatry’s Incurable Hubris, Gary Greenberg
Charles Hartshorne: Neoclassical Metaphysics, Donald Wayne Viney (see Comment)
Denis Diderot’s The Encyclopedia: Selections, Stephen J. Gendzier, ed. (see review)
ABOUT/PRINCIPLES (Edited 7/31/19)