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Since the early 1980s Southern Utah has been a kind of spiritual home for me. The “Colorado Plateau” is actually the proper geographical name for this vast red rock region that ranges from the [...]

Those familiar with my work know that since 2013 the majority of my time has been devoted to The Institute for Cultural Evolution (ICE). ICE is a nonprofit “integral political think [...]

The following blog is reposted from The Hill, a Washington DC-based political journal, and also from my blog on the Institute for Cultural Evolution’s website: In the wake of the 2016 election, [...]

The following blog is reposted from my blog on the Institute for Cultural Evolution’s website: The election of Donald Trump is dreadful, literally. I dread what his administration will bring, [...]

The spiritual web TV channel Conscious 2 has published a short course on some of the material from my latest book, The Presence of the Infinite. You can watch a free preview clip on the Conscious [...]

The following blog is reposted from my blog on the Institute for Cultural Evolution’s website: The Institute for Cultural Evolution does not officially endorse candidates for public office. [...]

Last year I was invited to write a thousand word “commentary” on David Sloan Wilson’s recently published book Does Altruism Exist?. This commentary was solicited for Sloan Wilson’s [...]

In this new paper, originally published on the Institute for Cultural Evolution’s website, I argue that contemporary centrist political perspectives lack persuasive power. Centrism consistently [...]

Jeff Salzman and I are working on our upcoming Boulder seminar, now called the “Integral Incubator.” Our second annual seminar on the integral (a.k.a. “evolutionary,” or “post-postmodern”) [...]

On April 24th, the nationally syndicated National Public Radio program “To the Best of Our Knowledge” aired an hour-length feature on the problem of hyper-partisan political polarization. The [...]