Wednesday, June 18, 2025No Kings Protest—Kudos and Disappointment
This past Saturday, I attended the No Kings protest in a Midwestern college town. I walked in with a spring in my step, yet left early with a frown on...
Wednesday, May 28, 2025Greg Thomas: Can Injustice Catalyze a Hero's Journey?
In this episode of How My View Grew, Greg Thomas describes how jazz saved him from hating so-called "white people" and how he learned to see the Black...
Friday, May 16, 2025Two Audacious Ideas for a Post-Trump America (Really)
When right-wingers in the United States were in the wilderness for decades, they didn't just sit on their hands. They envisioned bold ways to change t...
Thursday, May 8, 2025Seven Causes of Trump Mafia State Fatigue
Let's admit it. The Trump presidency isn't just creating chaos and destruction with sadistic glee. It's also exhausting.What's exhausting isn't only t...
Friday, May 2, 2025Ten Bright Spots in the First 100 Days
The first 100 days of the Trump presidency have brought destruction and chaos at astonishing speeds.Yet we've also seen demonstrations of courage, str...
Wednesday, April 16, 2025Nine Suggestions For Facing An American Warlord
In this episode of How My View Grew, I offer nine ways that leaders of key American institutions—Congressional Democrats, the Supreme Court, universit...
Wednesday, March 26, 2025"They Would Never Do That"
Why have so many liberals and progressives felt shocked by the first two months of the second Trump Administration? Why, instead, did so many assume t...
Wednesday, March 19, 2025Ari Weinzweig: Can Workplace Dignity Prevent Political Tyranny?
The first two months of the new Administration in Washington DC have brought shocking degrees of chaos and disruption. Many people who didn't vote for...
Wednesday, January 22, 2025How to Escape the Drama Triangle
This is the final episode of season two. After taking a short break, we'll return in March with season three.In episode eight of this season, I introd...
Wednesday, January 8, 2025Kim Stanley Robinson: How can humans reverse climate change?
Kim Stanley ("Stan") Robinson is one of the world's most acclaimed and popular science fiction novelists, first famous for his Mars Trilogy. For the p...
Wednesday, December 25, 2024Depolarize Politics by Escaping the Drama Triangle
In this 10-minute episode of How My View Grew, discover a powerful method for depolarizing politics and improving relationships: the drama triangle. I...
Wednesday, December 11, 2024Lene Rachel Andersen: Can Teaching History Prevent Authoritarianism?
As Donald Trump returns to the White House, many American citizens are willing to tear everything down. Where did these destructive inclinations come ...
