The Work and Life of Women: The Dynamics of Individualism and Power
[Note: This essay builds on work that was published in Rosalind Sun and William Bergquist, The Word for World is Work. This …
The Nature of True Freedom III: Creating A Shared Image of the Future
Positive freedom to do something, in turn, is sustained only if a society has defined or is in the process of continually de…
The Nature of True Freedom II: Harmony of Interests
I provide an economic and commerce-based perspective, suggesting that true freedom might reside in something called the “har…
The Nature of True Freedom I: Balancing Personal Rights and Collective Responsibilities
I propose that true freedom requires a balancing between a concern for individual personal rights and a concern for collecti…
Dancing with the Internet and Other Human Embedded Technologies
This is the first in a series of recorded interviews concerning the impact of emergent technologies on the way in which we t…
Memory and the Internet
We are ready to introduce a new character into this dance that we are choreographing regarding memory. This new character is…
From Learned Helplessness to Hope: A Case Study
For the LGBTQ+ youth, it is not enough to examine hope on the individual level. It should be linked into a broader context …
Creating What People Want in Dayton, Ohio, But Don’t Think They Can Have
“Re-Imagining America” is a response to a widespread experience that somehow “America has left itself behind” and is buildin…
Is Experiencing the Overview Effect a Human Right?
Since the mid-1980s, I have been conducting research into the experience of astronauts when they view the Earth from space a…
The King is Dead….Long Live the King: A Theory Concerning the Current Wave of Authoritarianism
Although we in the 21st Century have given ourselves permission to rule ourselves, apparently, we don’t feel entirely up to …