To King or Not to King… Are We Seriously Asking this Question?
After the more than two centuries since the American and French Revolutions, the kings are back — or at least, trying to be. But we don’t have to be stuck in this strange cycle.
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Educators Fight Suppression to Teach America’s Real History
Now, some history advocacy organizations are leaning into community-based education programs to continue teaching a more diverse and comprehensive picture of the nation’s past.
AI Utopia, AI Apocalypse, and AI Reality
AI seems to present a spectacular new slate of opportunities and threats. But, in essence, much of what was true before AI remains so now.
Food Makes Babies
It seems to me we got swept up in the currents, now imperiling the world. Along the way, a lot of food made a lot of babies—packing the stadium for the great spectacle of collapse under the weight of the assembled crowd.
Remember the Future?
Whether we like it or not, we must live with the unknowability of the future, its capacity to humble us and take us by surprise, our inability to control it.
Sankofa Part One – History’s Most Challenging Moments
Sankofa originates from the Akan inhabitants of Ghana, and broadly describes the importance of remembering and incorporating knowledge from the past in order to move forward. Or put another way, learning from the past in order to better steer the future.
Why Every Student Needs Human Ecology Education Now
From resilience to resourcefulness, human ecology education offers the life skills our schools forgot—equipping the next generation to navigate adulthood, climate challenges, and complex social systems with confidence, care, and collective strength.
Zak Stein — AI’s Unseen Risks: How Artificial Intelligence Could Harm Future Generations
In this episode, Nate is joined once again by philosopher of education Zak Stein to delve into the far-reaching implications of technology – especially artificial intelligence – on the future of education.
A World Without iPhones? Who Can Even Imagine It Any More? Well, Let Me Try
So, I am turning my iPhone off. It makes my present different. Will it make the future any different? It won’t hurt to try!
Creating a politics of the future
My suggestion here is that a politics of the future that might make a difference would be about reimagining our relationships, with each other and with nature.
The Story of B
We must forget The Great Forgetting, which told us that our culture was all of humanity.
“Stick Together:” An Anthem for the Community Resilience and Resistance Movement
Luke’s song underscores the power of music and art at this moment. I know it helps me personally to stay grounded and sane as we face the topsy-turvy days we are living through.