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The Institute for Cultural Evolution’s official blog features occasional columns by each of ICE’s Senior Fellows, as well as blogs from other ICE associates and guest bloggers. The most recent ICE blog post is featured below. Please make comments at the end of the post, we appreciate your input as we work to evolve American politics.

September 05, 2013

Senator Akin and the Medieval Worldview of the Right


Elizabeth Debold
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As I picked my jaw up off the floor after hearing Rep. Todd Akin’s now infamous statement that women’s uteruses have the magical power to resist impregnation in the case of rape, I wondered, “Where could he have gotten that idea?” Laura Helmuth, writing for Salon.com’s XXfactor, noted that his “statement was a crystallization of Akin’s worldview: […]

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July 18, 2013

The idea of cultural evolution is very important to me


Michael Zimmerman
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For many years, the idea of cultural evolution was very important to me. As a teenager, I watched on TV while civil rights workers were beaten beause they demanded equal rights for blacks in the American south and elsewhere. My understanding was that those stirring and dangerous efforts represented a change in how people thought […]

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July 05, 2013

The Story of How ICE Came to Be


Steve McIntosh
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The idea of forming a nonprofit think tank focused on influencing the American electorate through the insights of integral philosophy began in the summer of 2011. As I was putting the finishing touches on my last book, Evolution’s Purpose, I realized that this emerging understanding we are now calling the “evolutionary perspective” (among other labels) […]

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June 17, 2013

Origins of the Institute for Cultural Evolution


Carter Phipps
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At the 2012 Republican National Convention, Mitt Romney’s acceptance speech was well received by an energized audience. But at least one particular point of his speech was embraced with an extra sense of joy, laughter, enthusiasm and even a standing ovation. “Barack Obama” he exclaimed, invoking the name of the president with a certain measured […]

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