Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life is a film that feels less like a story than a meditation—a cinematic sutra on suffering, impermanence, and the mystery of grace that maps our current condition as human beings. Among its most haunting scenes, a dinosaur presses its...
Some defend the status quo. Others call for upheaval, even violent overthrow, to cure our civic rot. But violence only breeds new cycles of violence. What we need is a peaceful inner revolution: a Great Turning married to a Great Commitment, the kind Gandhi, Nelson...
Some defend the status quo. Others call for upheaval, even violent overthrow, to cure our civic rot. But violence only breeds new cycles of violence. What we need is a peaceful inner revolution: a Great Turning married to a Great Commitment, the kind Gandhi, Nelson...
Sometimes I hear from ordinary people who wish to do something about the multiplying threats to freedom and democracy that we face under the growing Trump tyranny, but fear that their activism may cost them dearly. Our country is on the road to a fascist state and the...
Imagine one Maria Torres—a mother of three and an undocumented immigrant from Guatemala. On a quiet morning in Phoenix federal agents knock on her door. She isn’t under investigation. She has never committed a crime. But when her 12-year-old son asks, “Do we...
