What’s So Good About WOKE?
Aug 27, 2020
"Claire and I listened to Jeff's latest podcast on Sunday and it was a breath of fresh air. Highly recommended if you're upset by the current culture wars. (if you're not, are you still alive?) Yes, Jeff uses some integral jargon from time to time but I think anyone...
When the Left Goes Right
Oct 20, 2020
Wow a great stimulating conversation. - Mary Linda Landauer These two guests were particularly interesting. a fascinating discussion. - Dave Cardano A couple weeks ago I received an email from my old pal Jason Lange with the question: “What’s your pulse on all the...
The Emergence of Post-Progressive Political Thought
May 20, 2020
It’s subtle but some of you have noticed: I’ve changed the tagline of the Daily Evolver to “A post-progressive look at politics and culture”. It used to read “Integral insights into politics and culture”, which still describes what I attempt to do in this podcast: to...
Toward a Post-Progressive View of Race Relations
Jun 10, 2020
The videotaped murder of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis police and the subsequent two weeks of demonstrations has galvanized the nation. In part 1 of this episode (00:10), I look at the evolutionary potency of the events of the last two weeks, which have...
Postmodern Beauty: From Cirque To Seinfeld To Saatchi
May 10, 2018
In this episode Jeff takes a look at three towering examples of postmodern art, and how they can aesthetically “move us” forward. Cirque de Soleil - a thrilling display of surface without depth The Seinfeld TV Show - a show not “about nothing”, just nothing meaningful...
The Beauty of Evolved Conflict
Mar 16, 2019
Nature is, as poet Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote, “red in tooth and claw.” Human nature is too, so far at least, but a counter-trend is emerging: as evolution progresses, conflict overall becomes less violent and more complex. Complexity arises out of the evolutionary...
Forgiving Humanity
Oct 19, 2018
People often call me an optimist, a term I’ve never felt quite comfortable with. Is it optimistic to notice that humanity – and humans - fight our way forward? Is it optimistic to see that the catastrophes of history, while dwindling, are far from over? I prefer the...
Mayor Pete’s X-Factor
Apr 5, 2019
In less than three months, Pete Buttigieg, the 37-year-old mayor of South Bend Indiana, (population 102,000), has gone from political anonymity to the top tier of candidates in the Democratic race for president of the United States. What accounts for Mayor Pete’s...
Does Space Create Distance?
Feb 1, 2019
Integral practitioners talk a lot about creating a more spacious consciousness, one that includes more of reality. To that end we do things like place people and cultures on maps. We tease apart distinctions, we “transcend and include” and “differentiate and...
Progress and Chaos
Feb 9, 2019
The idea of human progress has been widely discredited since the wars and genocides of the mid-20th-century. But what if the 20th century also featured the largest (and largest percentage) of people living in peace and prosperity, eclipsed only by the 21st century so...
