July 2021

Identity Politics

Robin DiAngelo /

All progress we have made in the realm of civil rights has been accomplished through identity politics: women’s suffrage, the American with Disabilities Act, Title 9, federal recognition of same-sex marriage. A key issue in the 2016 presidential election was the white working class. These are all manifestations of identity politics. Take women’s suffrage. If

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If we are to survive and thrive, we must hold its divisions and contradictions with compassion, lest we lose our democracy.

Parker Palmer /

I discovered a book that helped me understand how heartbreak and depression – two of the most isolating and disabling experiences I know – can expand one’s sense of connectedness and evoke the heart’s capacity to employ tension in the service of life. Lincoln’s Melancholy, by Joshua Shenk, is a probling examination of our sixteenth

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Until We Weep

Shannon CrossBear /

by Shannon CrossBear Let us weep For what has been done to the children, to the mothers, to the fathers, to the sons and daughters Over generations, across continents and oceans in the name of the Doctrine of Discovery Let us weep And with those tears nurture right relationship Remembering what it means to be

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An increasingly cutthroat social and economic contest

Robert Putnam /

Some Americans have reacted to these many forms of dislocation by turning on their perceived adversaries in an increasingly cutthroat social and economic contest. Racism and gender discrimination persist and are even intensified. Indeed, the progress toward racial equality achieved in an earlier era has in many ways reversed. White supremacist  violence is on the

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