Author: Jeff Salzman

This week Jeff talks about the latest ruling on gay rights from the Supreme Court. The issue of homosexuality also features prominently in his assessment of Obama’s trip to Africa. Then we move north to Egypt where political...

Integral theory gives us a powerful way to interpret world events. We see that tribalism gives rise to traditionalism, which gives rise to modernity, which gives rise to postmodernity. In all four quadrants! This week Jeff...

Once again the Middle East tops the headlines, with a story of surprising good news from Iran, plus a risky move by Obama to involve the US in the Syrian civil war. Listen in as Jeff Salzman tries to make some integral sense of...

It rarely makes the headlines, but progress is an ongoing story. Here’s an eclectic mix of good news graphs illustrating positive developments from global poverty to health to hygiene....

The big story this week is the revelation of large scale US government surveillance of phone and internet activity. We also noticed a fascinating story from New Guinea about witches and cannibals, which illuminates the magical...

Featuring a live report from Emine Kiray, our intrepid reporter in Istanbul! This week we took a look at three big stories from the news: 1.   Sexual abuse in the military.  Yesterday began hearings on Capitol Hill where the...

In this first Daily Evolver Live call Jeff lays out some of the principles he uses to interpret current events through an integral lens. Working with examples from the week’s headlines, he shows how evolutionary thinking...

David Brooks’ column in the New York Times today, What Our Words Tell Us, addresses one of the processes of evolution that cultures experience as they move from the traditional to modern stage of development (see an explanation...

We had a lively discussion at The Integral Center Monday night about Benghazi, the IRS scandal, Jodi Arias and Ariel Castro. Check it out… 15:18 The IRS targeting conservative groups for audits scandal. The right gets...

I’ve run into some cool photos on my travels through cyberspace the last few days. Pulled from different sources, together they show a trajectory of development in the contemporary Muslim world regarding the role of women....

Siri keeps transcribing my dictation of “Jihadi” as “gym hottie.”  Smart girl.  Here’s to the continued unfoldment of progress!  (Or maybe she just knows me too well.)...

My old friend Rob McNamara dropped by yesterday to talk about his new book, The Elegant Self: A Radical Approach to Personal Evolution for Greater Influence in Life. I loved the book because it so successfully ponders one of my...

We local Boulder integralistas had another lively discussion at the Integral Center last Monday night, doing our best to take an evolutionary view of the week’s events. We started with the big issue of the day here in the...

R.I.P. Maggie …

As we approach the week when the Supreme Court is going to hear two important gay-marriage cases (the challenges to California’s Prop 8 and the federal Defense of Marriage Act), I wanted to check in on the best arguments of the...

Though we are going to miss the red Pradas … 

One of the biggest problems in embracing a more positive view of the world is what is known in psychology as negativity bias. Human beings — indeed all living things — are wired by evolution to be on guard against...