How Should We Then Live? | John Michael Greer

John Michael GreerMarch 8, 2017 (Archdruid Report) -- The philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer, which we’ve been discussing for several weeks now, isn’t usually approached from the angle by which I’ve b ...

What Tony Robbins taught me about activism | Mickey Z.

By Randy Stewart (http://www.flickr.com/photos/stewtopia/3948482669/) , via Wikimedia Commons Mickey Z. -- World News Trust March 2, 2017 Only recently did I finally marshal the courage to begin seri ...

The Magic Lantern Show | John Michael Greer

Carl G. Jung.March 1, 2017 (Archdruid Report) -- The philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer, which we’ve been discussing for the last three weeks, was enormously influential in European intellectual circl ...

Scientists reveal new super-fast form of computer that 'grows as it computes' | PhysOrg

DNA double helix. Credit: public domain March 1, 2017 (PhysOrg) -- Researchers from The University of Manchester have shown it is possible to build a new super-fast form of computer that "grows as it ...

A Muddle of Mind and Matter | John Michael Greer

Feb. 22, 2017 (Archdruid Report) -- The philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer, which we’ve been discussing for the last two weeks, has a feature that reliably irritates most people when they encounter it ...

The World as Will | John Michael Greer

Arthur SchopenhauerFeb. 15, 2017 (Archdruid Report) -- It's impressively easy to misunderstand the point made in last week’s post here on The Archdruid Report. To say that the world we experience is ...

The Notion of Democracy | Emanuele Corso

Emanuele Corso -- World News Trust Feb. 2, 2017 Democracy in the United States has become notional. Perhaps it has always been this way and we simply haven’t noticed. Our beliefs are always either ev ...

Thoughts on 'It Can’t Happen Here' | Emanuele Corso

Emanuele Corso -- World News Trust I wrote this essay last November following the election. I was disheartened, to say the least, and I am republishing here as a reflection on current developments an ...

Nothing fundamentally wrong with US public education | Emanuele Corso

Emanuele Corso -- World News Trust Jan. 19, 2017 There is nothing fundamentally wrong with public education in the United States; it is not the monster right-wing millionaires and their on-a-leash po ...

It’s not a level playing field. It’s a jigsaw puzzle with a lot of missing pieces. | Mickey Z.

Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Jan. 15, 2017 “I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal ...

Building the Institutions for Revolt | Chris Hedges

Mr. Fish / Truthdig Jan. 15, 2017 (Truthdig) -- Politics is a game of fear. Those who do not have the ability to make power elites afraid do not succeed. All of the movements that opened up the democ ...