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The Avenging Heroes Among Us: John Berger on the Courage to Create
The Avenging Heroes Among Us: John Berger on the Courage to Create

“The powerful fear art, whatever its form… because it makes sense of what life’s brutalities cannot, a sense that unites us… becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring.”

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The Strength of the Sensitive: E.M. Forster on the Personal and Political Power of Empaths and the Relationship Between Creativity and Democracy
The Strength of the Sensitive: E.M. Forster on the Personal and Political Power of Empaths and the Relationship Between Creativity and Democracy

“I believe in… an aristocracy of the sensitive, the considerate and the plucky. Its members are to be found in all nations and classes, and all through the ages, and there is a secret understanding between them when they meet.”

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Pioneering Psychiatrist Donald Winnicott on the Psychology of Democracy and the Most Dangerous Type of Person
Pioneering Psychiatrist Donald Winnicott on the Psychology of Democracy and the Most Dangerous Type of Person

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Grace Paley on the Countercultural Courage of Imagining Other Lives
Grace Paley on the Countercultural Courage of Imagining Other Lives

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Leonard Cohen on the Antidote to Anger and the Meaning of Resistance
Leonard Cohen on the Antidote to Anger and the Meaning of Resistance

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Prisons We Choose to Live Inside: Doris Lessing on Redeeming Humanity
Prisons We Choose to Live Inside: Doris Lessing on Redeeming Humanity

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Octavia Butler (and Whitman’s Ghost) on America
Octavia Butler (and Whitman’s Ghost) on America

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Kinship in the Light of Conscience: Peter Kropotkin on the Crucial Difference Between Love, Sympathy, and Solidarity
Kinship in the Light of Conscience: Peter Kropotkin on the Crucial Difference Between Love, Sympathy, and Solidarity

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What Makes Life Alive and Worth Living: Vasily Grossman on Consciousness, Freedom, and Kindness
What Makes Life Alive and Worth Living: Vasily Grossman on Consciousness, Freedom, and Kindness

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How to Think Like a Sunflower: Wendell Berry on Turning Conflict into Collaboration
How to Think Like a Sunflower: Wendell Berry on Turning Conflict into Collaboration

“We are not the authors of ourselves. That we are not is a religious perception, but it is also a biological and a social one. Each of us has had many authors, and each of us is engaged, for better or worse, in that same authorship. We could say that the human race is a great coauthorship in which we are collaborating with God and nature in the making of ourselves and one another.”

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