Author: Jeff Salzman

  I’m really psyched to be co-hosting a cool gathering in Denver over New Year’s. Called “What Next”, the conference is about spotlighting key people in the integral community who are bringing the...

An interesting David Brooks column in the New York Times continues his (and our) exploration of the US school system. This week he looks at research by Robert Putnam, a political scientist from Harvard, who illuminates a growing...

This week’s Daily Evolver focuses on the recent Supreme Court decision to uphold the constitutionality of President Obama’s health plan. Jeff and David look into the evolutionary march of the US health care system as the public...

  Great column on the education system by David Brooks today.  Although he doesn’t identify it as such, he’s critiquing modern & postmodern education, and especially its bad effects on boys: The education system has...

This episode of The Daily Evolver focuses on the deep and difficult topic of suffering. When looking at the world through an Integral evolutionary lens, we cannot ignore the immensity of pain and suffering that exists today,...

I’m sitting on my bed beside an open window in my Frankfurt hotel room, listening to the raucous cheers of crowds in the streets as Germany wins a key quarter-final World Cup soccer match (against the poor Greeks, of all...

Ok, one more post about Maureen Dowd, then I’ll leave her alone (if she lets me). I just can’t help but point out that in her latest NYTimes column, the Mean Green Queen, writing under the consummate mean green...

by Jeff Salzman I received a critique from a reader regarding my previous posting, “Maureen Dowd and Liberal Flaccidity”.  It represents a very common criticism of integral theory, so after responding on the comments...

by Jeff Salzman Last week Bill Clinton went off the reservation and said something positive about Mitt Romney. Predictably, media madness ensued.  Out of the hubbub I noticed the pernicious force of snark once again emitting...

Text by Corey DeVos This episode of Daily Evolver features a special guest, our friend Wayne Guenther. Wayne wrote Jeff a very well articulated email concerning comments he had made about the issue of massively increased data...

by Jeff Salzman Here’s something you don’t see everyday: an explicitly integral blog post on a non-integral site. Titled, “The Avengers: Integral Alchemy”, it’s a an evolutionary view of the...

Text by Corey DeVos In this episode of the Daily Evolver, Jeff and David recap the major stories of the week, focusing first on President Obama’s historic announcement supporting same sex marriage—the very first president in...

by Jeff Salzman God knows I loves me my Sam Harris!  And no, it’s not just because he’s a hunk (although he is – Jesus!). It’s because Harris (along with many others, among them Richard Dawkins and the late...

“One of my greener friends was making the point that the United States is no better than Rome, and we’re projecting our power with wars and all of it.  If that were true, we’d be marching on Ottawa.”...

  Note: this Daily Evolver was recorded the day before Rick Santorum dropped out of the campaign. Good thing we didn’t talk about him for a half hour instead of Romney. That could have been embarrassing. In this week’s...

Here’s an interesting column from the New York Times op-ed page by Nicholas Kristof. It brings tantalizing integral language to the ongoing political and cultural food-fight between conservatives and liberals.  He reports...

This week’s Daily Evolver turns the tables a bit, as Jeff interviews David about what’s been happening with Integral Christianity here at Integral Life. In spite of recent negative press about the failings of some...

This week’s Daily Evolver looks at the recent #OccupyIntegral manifesto posted by Terry Patten and Marco Morelli, calling for more engagement from an Integral community that is often criticized for being too heady,...

In this week’s Daily Evolver we examine the recent news about working conditions in China’s manufacturing plants, with Apple products like the iPhone and iPad at the center of this controversy. As much as we love...

This week’s Daily Evolver looks at the recent election year ruckus concerning the Obama’s administration attempt to get religious-affiliated hospitals and university health centers to pay for contraception. Although...

This week’s Daily Evolver takes a look at 2012 through the lens of Integral futurism. In this conversation, Jeff and David begin by looking at the two major themes that are culturally associated with 2012: apocalypse and...

In this week’s Daily Evolver we take a look at the present state of conflict between Iran and the U.S., driven by Iran’s stated intention to develop nuclear capabilities. The West claims that Iran intends to develop...