Children, Artists, Prophets, and Politics

Sojourners, Spring 1972 Children, artists, and prophets have one thing in common. They see things with fresh eyes. When my daughter was two, we were in the Art Institute in Chicago when she suddenly saw a large brass Rodin sculpture of a woman. “There’s Mommy!” she exclaimed. Once my little brother, who liked finger painting, came to my mother…

Toward a New Birth of Democracy

I. Equality is the Bedrock of Freedom A. Conflict over collective and individual self-understanding “Achieving self-understanding is like hard, slow tunneling” – Danielle Allen, Our Declaration, p. 188[1] The central concern of this website is to respond to what Naomi Klein referred to as the inner obstacle to effective action against climate disaster. That deep-rooted…