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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.
July 07, 2015
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Integral Ecology in the Papal Encyclical, On Care for Our Common Home (Laudato Si’): A Critical Appreciation
According to some people, humankind’s current influence on the biosphere has become so extensive that we have entered a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene. This incipient temporal frame is said to displace the Holocene, the epoch that commenced after the end of the last Ice Age almost 12,000 years ago. Although the idea of the […]
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June 10, 2015
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Overcoming Polarization Requires the Moral Strengths of Both Right and Left
Introduction Political gridlock in Washington is negatively impacting all Americans, and sending a message to the rest of the world that they shouldn’t try to emulate or strive for a democratic system such as ours. Indeed, according to a recent Gallup poll, Americans see “dysfunctional government” as the country’s biggest challenge.1 Polarization, however, has shown […]
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May 19, 2015
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ICE Announces Integral Escalator Seminar
As many of the readers of this blog know, the work of the Institute for Cultural Evolution think tank is based on a new way of seeing and understanding known as the “integral” or “evolutionary” perspective. And now ICE directors Steve McIntosh and Jeff Salzman are offering a small in-depth seminar that will help you […]
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April 11, 2015
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Fostering Evolution in Islamic Culture; New Paper by Steve McIntosh
The ongoing rise of radical Islamism in the twenty-first century is a difficult and dire problem, for which cultural evolution is really the only viable permanent solution. But to overcome this growing threat to world peace and security, not only will Muslims themselves need to evolve, the developed world as a whole will need to grow and mature into a more […]
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March 19, 2015
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Selected Readings on American Political Polarization
Hyper-partisan political polarization in America has been described as a “wicked problem” because there are many causes and no straightforward solutions. Although much has been written about the problem, the literature can be loosely divided into four categories: (1) Descriptions of the problem (typically backed by political science research), (2) Structural solutions to the problem […]
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March 18, 2015
Steve McIntosh
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Join Us for a Panel Discussion at the Integral Center: Cultural Challenges for Emerging Islamic Modernism
Steve McIntosh On April 23, 2015 the University of Colorado, together with The Institute for Cultural Evolution think tank (ICE), are co-hosting a discussion on the cultural challenges raised by the Islamic world’s relationship with modernity. The event includes two afternoon public lectures on campus, and an evening panel discussion off-campus at Boulder’s Integral Center. Our distinguished […]
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February 02, 2015
Richard Tafel
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America at Its Best: Gay Marriage Points the Way to End Political Polarization
Richard Tafel The story of how gay marriage has gone from a political impossibility to a cultural reality offers America a practical way forward on the seemingly impossible issue of political gridlock. In his State of the Union address, the president drew a connection between the success of gay marriage and the possibility of ending gridlock in […]
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January 09, 2015
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Depolarizing the American Electorate Through Values Integration, By Rich Tafel and Steve McIntosh
According to a recent Gallup poll, Americans see “dysfunctional government” as the country’s biggest challenge.1 And there is wide agreement that our government has become dysfunctional as a result of hyper-partisan political polarization. While polarization has many causes, the root of the problem is found in our country’s simmering cultural values war that is enmeshed […]
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January 09, 2015
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ICE Founders Host Political Polarization Gathering at Esalen
Perched on a narrow stretch of the Big Sur Pacific coastline, Esalen Institute is about as far away as you can get from the Washington DC and still be in the same country—geographically, but also politically, culturally, and institutionally. Yet, for a few days in the first week of October, those distances were bridged, and […]
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October 14, 2014
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Reflections on Esalen’s 2014 Conclave on Political Polarization
This past week I was at The Esalen Center for Theory and Research on California’s legendary Big Sur coast. I came to Esalen to participate in an event I’ve been helping to plan for close to a year: The Conclave on Political Polarization. Since December 2013, The Institute for Cultural Evolution (“ICE”) has been working […]
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