Reading about the tensions between collective and individual identity in Jeremy Rifkin’s bible-length tome, The Empathic Civilization, I realized I’ve lived most of my life with a Lone Ranger mentality…

I encountered Rifkin’s exploration of a …

I don’t think we should be down on people whose minds are closed. Learning is painful, I suspect. At least, uncomfortable. Which is a level of distress. Learning – neurologically speaking – is an event of neural plasticity.See it on S…

“ The goal of the Norwegian penal system is to get inmates out of it.”Jim Manske’s insight:From punitive to restorative…See it on Scoop.it, via Radical Compassion

The Institute for Economics and Peace provides a new methodology to categorize and account for the economic activity related to violence.   The size of economic activity that is devoted to inflicting, preventing or dealing with the consequences o…