Culture & Values
Series 07 · 1 explainer
Ideas travel through people. This series explains the thinkers and concepts that shape how many people picture a better future: Joanna Macy’s Great Turning, Paul Ray’s research on cultural creatives and a political compass beyond left and right, Walter Wink’s reading of nonviolence and more, each with its critics.
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