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January 2021

January 14, 2021

Standing up to Lies: Can America Emerge from Trump’s Abuse and Gaslighting?

Four years ago, just after the inauguration of Donald Trump, I noticed a peculiar thing:...

November 2020

November 11, 2020

Progressive responses to the 2020 election of Biden over Trump

2020 has been an incredible year in more ways than many of us can begin...

August 2019

August 31, 2019

Hong Kong: Democracy, Protest, and Violence. A Primer (Videos)

Hong Kong, once a bustling financial hub and port city on the southern coast of...

August 13, 2019

Yes, Hong Kong is still Safe. For now.

These are just some notes, as I commute home from Tsuen Wan, in the New...

September 2018

September 10, 2018

China, Buddhism, and the new era of Globalization

Today I have some early thoughts on a topic that I hope I will return...

September 05, 2018

Buddhist economics: further resources

As I mentioned in a recent post, I'll be starting (today) a semester-long position as...

August 2018

August 27, 2018

The Dalai Lama offers a tribute to Senator John McCain

As letters of condolence and kind words for Senator John McCain flood in from politicians...

August 22, 2018

A Teaching Philosophy as Revolutionary Manifesto

Sixteen hours of travel and four hours of sleep left me particularly jet-lagged and head-achy...

August 06, 2018

David Foster Wallace, Irony, and American Buddhism today

I watched End of the Tour (2015) last night, a movie about a writer, David Lipsky,...

June 2018

June 20, 2018

Knowing Harm, We Must Oppose It

The Chronicle of Higher Education today reports on the many thousands of academics and academic...

February 2018

February 22, 2018

Buddhism, Burma, and Politics via Religion Dispatches

Religion Dispatches (RD) posted an interview last week with Matthew Walton discussing his book on...

April 2017

April 09, 2017

The Dalai Lama criticizes Trump’s “America First” policy

In the video posted by England's Channel 4 News yesterday (below), the Dalai Lama also...

March 2017

March 10, 2017

UPDATE: Tibet Women’s Soccer team finds allies in Congress

As reported recently, the Tibet Women's Soccer team, the "Snow Lionesses," has been denied visas...

February 2017

February 09, 2017

Buddhist Activism in an age of neo-fascism and “alternative facts”

I sit in a basement cafe in downtown Seattle. I worry a bit about finances...

January 2017

January 28, 2017

On Kant, Contempt, and our Buddhist path(s) forward

Karen Stohr, associate professor of philosophy at Georgetown University and senior research scholar at Georgetown’s...

January 25, 2017

We Cannot Report a Lie: Has NPR been Gaslighted by Trump?

If you've never had to look up "gaslighting" in the dictionary, consider yourself lucky. I...

January 19, 2017

Buddhists in a Democracy: Be Political, But Not Partisan

This year's election and the impending inauguration of Donald Trump have drawn out some heated...

January 05, 2017

Buddhist Gladness for a Trump Victory

The Bubble Like many inside the liberal bubble, I have had (and continue to have)...

November 2016

November 23, 2016

Thich Nhat Hanh disciple offers Buddhist Wisdom for a World Gripped by Fear

The Vietnamese Zen monk Thich Nhat Hanh has been a source of deep wisdom in...

November 18, 2016

Tibetan Buddhist immigrant told: ‘get the f— out of my country’

Tenzin Dorjee is from Bhutan, the tiny kingdom in the Himalayas made famous by its...

November 10, 2016

Day 1 after the election, solidarity and kindness

A LOT of feelings came up for me Tuesday night. After teaching meditation, I turned...

November 07, 2016

Buddhism and Politics: Applying the First Precept

A guest post by Andy Lambert Ah, the 2016 election.... This has been a huge...

November 06, 2016

Facing the Election with Buddhist Practices of Love, Compassion, Sympathetic Joy and Equanimity

The days are mercifully winding down toward November 8th, the day our nation picks the...

November 04, 2016

Slavoj Žižek would vote for Trump

Žižek claims that if he were an American he would vote for Trump. And, he...

November 04, 2016

American Buddhist political survey continues (a sneak peek)

With just under one hundred respondents so far, the picture emerging is more in Hillary...

October 2016

October 31, 2016

A Buddhist Prospective US Army Chaplain Candidate on the election

A guest post by Robert Shuken Ju-Etsu McCarthy My name is Robert McCarthy, my dharma name...

October 17, 2016

False: The Dalai Lama did *not* compare Donald Trump to Hitler

On Friday the website Religiousmind.com published a story claiming that "Dalai Lama Says Trump is...

October 12, 2016

“Qualifications, policies, intelligence, and pant suits”: Buddhist Political Preferences (Reader poll, October reporting)

Another month, another survey of readers on political preferences in the 2017 US Presidential race....

October 09, 2016

The Buddha intervenes in a Political Dispute thinking “it is my duty…”

Today's Daily Buddha Vaccana from the Digital Pali Reader contains a poignant tale, taken from...

October 08, 2016

Defeating a Demagogue: Donald Trump, Stephen Colbert, and some Buddhist thought on Politics

Buddhist teacher Ethan Nichtern has an excellent article over at Lion's Roar, a handy "guide"...

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