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A year away from the US Presidential election, Ankur Delight and I ponder the spectre of Donald Trump being the odds-on favorite to win. Our...
Is America really getting stupider? Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt makes the case in his influential essay in The Atlantic Magazine titl...
In this episode, I take another look at the movie Everything Everywhere All At Once in light of its popularity and controversy – inclu...
On today’s Daily Evolver Live (every Thursday @ 10am PT on YouTube) Ankur and I discussed the new Speaker of the US House of Represent...
If a debate isn’t about facts and arguments, what is it about? In this episode I look to a high school debate Tournament of Champions for th...
Ankur Delight and I talk about the major new deal the UAW struck with the Big Three automakers in the US. The three pillars of the deal are...
Hey folks, In this episode, Ankur kicks off our discussion by asking: “What can we do for Israel and Palestine? What really helps?” We discu...
Transcending the dueling perspectives of history, politics, religion and race, the insights of cultural development offer a more integrated,...
Ankur and I take an integral look at the Russel Brand sex scandal and how it is raising consciousness. We talk about: Presentism: a moving t...
We saw a powerful eruption of red warrior consciousness in the recent saga involving mob boss Vladimir Putin and his renegade enforcer, the...
Hey folks! The New York Times has published two major columns by columnist David Brooks criticizing the modern meritocracy and the postmoder...
In this episode, Ankur Delight and I reflect on the power and purpose of emergence in our own lives and culture. For Ankur, this conversatio...
Hey folks, Barbie tells the story of the cultural evolution of women in three stages. In the traditional world girls play with baby dolls, p...
Evolving your consciousness means enlarging your circle of moral consideration. Who is inside your circle and who is “the other”? In this ep...
Taking a little summer break from the news, Ankur Delight and I turn our attention to a subject that has fascinated – and terrified &#...
Hey folks! In this episode, I look at the evolutionary significance of our emerging mediaverse, with its gusher of entertainment coming to u...
This week Ankur and I share our 4th of July experiences and chart the different routes we took to a more integral appreciation of America. E...
Hey folks, welcome to another episode of The Shrink and the Pundit, where Dr Keith Witt, integral psychotherapist extraordinaire, joins me t...
In this short episode, we bring an integral lens to a controversial New York Times story, “Nazi Symbols on Ukraine’s Front Lines Highlight T...
In this episode, Jeff Salzman and Ankur Delight look at the culture war and explore exciting new insights Ankur has gained from training wit...
In this episode, Jeff Salzman and Ankur Delight look at some of the questions involving the emerging workplace: Will artificial intelligence...
Hey folks, As integral practitioners, we have insights that help us harmonize cultural polarities, which is why it’s too bad Bill Maher didn...
A brand new iteration of “This Week in the News”. Ankur Delight, who hosts one of my favorite podcasts, 10,000 Heroes, joins me to bring an...
Hey folks, This week I look at a rising star in the mainstream commentariat: Peter Zeihan. To me he is a good example of a proto-integral th...
This week I look at the hubbub surrounding the introduction of large language chatbots, the latest evolutionarily-potent development in arti...
The DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) movement is one of the leading edges of cultural evolution, installing green postmodern values whi...
Hey Folks, In this Daily Evolver I explore a variety of topics: A telling difference between green art and integral art – Learn more a...
In this episode, I take a look at three cultural artifacts that present worldcentric ideals of sustainability, egalitarianism and gender flu...
In this episode, I analyze Elon Musk through the lens of developmental theory, which maps the “spiral of worldview evolution” within people...
In this episode, Dr. Keith and I take on two hot-button issues in the culture wars, each of us coming up on different sides of key issues. H...
In this episode, Dr. Keith and I notice a growing attempt in the culture to bring meaning and purpose into the realms of science. We focus o...
There are at least three distinct sources of human suffering, all related, and none reducible to the others. They are: Nature—the unique com...
Dr. Keith and I marvel at an exciting new (to us) typology system developed by Kibeom Lee and Michael Ashton: the HEXACO system. Lee and Ash...
In this episode, Keith introduces me to his theory of human sociability. As he sees it, human relationships can be seen on a spectrum of pla...
In this short episode, I am joined by Jose and Lynn Fuentes, who are producing an exciting conference for the integral community this Novemb...
Who’s Inside Your Circle of Compassion? – A key marker of consciousness development is an ever-expanding circle of people (and other l...
The Left’s Split, Embracing More – The political Left is differentiating into “woke” and “non-woke” contingents – and fitfully i...
Reflections on Death – An evolution-inspired contemplation on what dies and what … maybe doesn’t. Full episode here.
Do We Care More About People Who Look Like Us? – Some thoughts about moral development from my series of episodes on the war on Ukrain...
This week political philosopher Steve McIntosh joins me to discuss global warming through the lens of cultural evolution. We focus on solvin...
This week I share our collective outrage and heartbreak over the shooting of the Texas schoolchildren and teachers, and manage to offer some...
Frances Fukuyama is one of our most prominent political philosophers. He is famous for his argument that liberal democracy and free-market c...
Sometimes in our psychological development the way forward requires us to go back, to re-explore earlier stages of life to see what is disto...
This week I address a listener’s question about a fascinating subculture arising in the environmental movement: the “post-doomers”, people w...
My guest today, Steve Banks, is an accomplished, integrally-inspired composer who is about to drop a fantastic new piece of music that is bo...
Today I’m talking with David Fuller, one of the emerging luminaries of the emerging emergence movement (whew!). David, along with his partne...
In this episode of the Shrink and the Pundit, Dr. Keith Witt and I discuss a powerful realization emerging at the leading edge of culture re...
The sexual evolution continues! This week I look at the controversy raging over the dramatic emergence of transsexual identity and gender fl...
Vladimir Putin’s ill-conceived war on Ukraine reveals a hidden aspect of consciousness evolution: newly emerging stages are seen by existing...
I’ve received many thoughtful and heartfelt comments on the war in Ukraine from my listeners. In this episode, I share their insights and ad...