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Requiem for the Age of Oil (Think About This #63)

July 1st, 2009 by Joel Pitney· 10 Comments · Culture, Politics, Think About This

All of the footage coming out of Iran over the last few weeks has revealed to the world, in living color, a new generation of web-connected young people foretelling radical change making its way to the Middle East. In the current issue of EnlightenNext magazine, we interview Elza Maalouf, CEO of the Center for [...]

Courage Under Fire in Iran

June 20th, 2009 by Carter Phipps· 6 Comments · Culture, Politics

As we watch events in Iran unfold, it is hard not to come to the conclusion that we may be seeing the beginning of the end of the current regime. I’m not saying that an overthrow or coup is imminent. But the general sense of popular legitimacy that the regime in Iran has had over [...]

President Obama: The Birth of a Moral Leader

June 13th, 2009 by Carter Phipps· 107 Comments · Idealism, News, Philosophy, Politics

A few years ago, in 2004, I wrote an article called “Is God a Pacifist?” It was a wide-ranging piece that covered many areas—peace, religious violence, nonviolent activism, etc. But it also was a philosophical analysis of the moral issues involved with the use of power and force. And one of the many interesting realizations [...]

Nuclear-tipped Pakistan and Stone Age Afghanistan

May 24th, 2009 by Carter Phipps· 1 Comment · Politics

There are few issues in the political world right now more vexing than the problem of Afghanistan and Pakistan, the so called AfPak issue. In fact, it’s probably not an exaggeration to say that the outcome of the AfPak issue over the coming decades could have a profound effect on the development and stability of our [...]

The Genie’s Out of the Bottle (Think About This #57)

May 20th, 2009 by Joel Pitney· 3 Comments · Cultural Evolution, News, Politics, Think About This

In the midst of our current financial crisis, many are calling into question the benefits of Western-style economic globalization. But Thomas Barnett, author of Great Powers: America and the World After Bush, believes that the virtues that globalization has brought to the world far outweigh its negative consequences. In the following excerpt from a feature [...]

Introducing: the EnlightenNext Editors’ Blog

April 20th, 2009 by Tom Huston· No Comments · EnlightenNext magazine, News

After years of eager anticipation, we’re pleased to finally welcome Evolutionaries everywhere to the first group blog by the editors of EnlightenNext magazine (formerly known as What Is Enlightenment?). Given that our magazine is a quarterly publication, we’ve long been wishing we had some way of being a little more timely when it comes to [...]