Institute for Cultural Evolution

Focusing on the Cultural Roots of America's Challenges

Evolving Politics to Build
a Livable Urban Future

Carter Phipps’s essay considers how the politics of infrastructure reflect the politics of the moment. Read it ...
Piercing Pessimism
About Positive Change

Carter Phipps's post highlights Hans Rosling’s recently published book, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong about the World and Why Things are Better Than You Think. Read it ...
Hyper-Partisan Polarization is More of
a Cultural Problem than a Political One

Read ICE president Steve McIntosh’s
interpretation of the 2018 midterm
elections on this blog post...
Is America Setting a Good Moral Example for the World?

NPR’s Phoenix affiliate station
recently interviewed ICE president
Steve McIntosh about PRRI’s
current survey of American values.
This brief 7 minute interview focuses
on the changing status of America’s
moral leadership internationally.
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Growing Out of America’s
Divided Culture

Check out the text and slides from Steve McIntosh’s Keystone College lecture on a “new politics of culture” that can overcome America’s bitterly divided political condition:
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Political Polarization Test
to Depolarize Your Thinking

In connection with ICE's political polarization campaign
this website now includes a "Polarization Test" designed
to help depolarize your thinking. This 2 minute test demon-
strates some of the ideas described in our accompanying
whitepaper: Depolarizing the American Mind. Take the test
Worldview Questionnaire:
What Are Your Values?
ICE Essay: Appreciating
the Upside of Nationalism

ICE President Steve McIntosh’s four
page essay, "Appreciating the Upside
of Nationalism,” argues that globalism
and nationalism are interdependent
ideals. He accordingly considers the
positive and enduring features of
nationalism that all Americans can endorse.
Read more ...
ICE Article: Why Centrism
Fails and How We Can Better
Achieve Political Cooperation

This 12 page article by Steve McIntosh argues for a ‘higher form of centrism’ that can integrate and harmonize the full spectrum of positive American values. Read more ...

The Institute for Cultural Evolution (ICE) is a 501c3 “integral think tank” focusing on the cultural roots of America’s challenges. Our mission is to help create political evolution in America. Toward this end we are working to overcome the problem of hyper-partisan polarization by evolving the political positions of both the Right and the Left according to their own values and strengths. Through invitational conclaves and influential publications, we endeavor to increase the scope of what people are able to value. The ICE team consists of “philosophical activists” who are applying groundbreaking insights from Integral philosophy and developmental psychology to help bring about cultural and political progress.