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Featured Articles: 2011 Activism and Politics

Daily Connect: Is America in its own Universe?
by Ethan Nichtern
February 7, 2011
"It's always worth bearing in mind that what passes for a hard right, extremely conservative anti-welfare state politician in Europe is, in general, to the left of any significant figure in the Democratic Party of the United States. So...
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Podcast: Interview with Acharya Fleet Maul Part 2
by Brian
February 1, 2011
This week on the ID Project Podcast, IDP Prison Project Coordinator Michael Carey Interviews Acharya Fleet Maull.  They discuss the current state of the prison system in the United States, Fleet's experience as a dharma practitioner while...
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Daily Art #16 - Christian Marclay's "The Clock"
by Matt Jones
January 29, 2011
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Weekly Art #23 (Michael Jordan!!!) - George Condo at the New Museum
by Matt Jones
January 26, 2011
 
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Interview with Acharya Fleet Maul Part 1
by Brian
January 25, 2011
This week on the ID Project Podcast, IDP Prison Project Coordinator Michael Carey Interviews Acharya Fleet Maull.  They discuss the current state of the prison system in the United States, Fleet's experience as a dharma practitioner while...
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Daily Art #13 - Seth Price Week #5 - Non Speech
by Matt Jones
January 21, 2011
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Daily Art #12 - Seth Price Week #3 - "N.Y. Sorrow"
by Matt Jones
January 19, 2011
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Weekly Art #22 - Seth Price
by Matt Jones
January 18, 2011
Seth Price's art practice is one I admire and identify with! A few months ago I picked up a book that included Price's work but barely paid any attention to it. A couple of days ago I had a dream that Seth Price was in. He told me to go...
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Daily Connect: Dr. King's Legacy, Meditation, and the Arc of the Moral Universe
by Ethan Nichtern
January 17, 2011
  Saturday would have been Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s 82nd birthday. I know some of us like to contemplate alternative histories, such as what might've happened if we'd majored in something different in college, or if Gore had...
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Daily Art #10 - Seth Price Week #1 - "Fire and Smoke"
by Matt Jones
January 16, 2011
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Daily Art #9 - Bryan Zanisnik's "18 Years of American Dreams"
by Matt Jones
January 15, 2011
 
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Civility, Modesty, and Buddhism
by ellen s
January 14, 2011
Today's New York Times has a provoking article by David Brooks. He's trying to provoke civility and modesty -- two words I almost never see in Buddhist writing. Nor do I see often see sentences like these: "Civility is a tree...
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Daily Art #7 - Ai Weiwei "Template"
by Matt Jones
January 12, 2011
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Weekly Art #21 - The Last Newspaper | Dash Snow "Untitled"
by Matt Jones
January 11, 2011
I was waiting around for a friend one day and decided to spend the waiting time checking out The Last Newspaper at the New Museum. The show was so-so, and it's over now so you can't see it if you wanted to but you probably didn't b/c...
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Daily Connect: Gunsights Galore and REsensitizing Ourselves to Violence
by Ethan Nichtern
January 10, 2011
"Hatred is never solved by hatred, but by love alone. This is an eternal law." -The Historical Buddha The Dhammapada "We never ever, ever intended it to be gun sights. It was simply cross-hairs like you'd see on maps,...
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Daily Art #3
by Matt Jones
January 7, 2011
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Daily Art #2
by Matt Jones
January 6, 2011
Vincent Willem van Gogh (Dutch, 1853 – 1890), Rain, 1889. Oil on canvas, 28 7/8 x 36 3/8 inches. Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Henry P. McIlhenny Collection in memory of Frances P. McIlhenny, 1986
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Daily Art #1
by Matt Jones
January 5, 2011
Posters for Martin Kippenberger exhibitions at the entrance to "Martin Kippenberger: The Problem Perspective" at the Museum of Modern Art
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Getting to know your Pumpkin -- Vegan Curry Risotto Recipe
by Patrick Groneman
January 5, 2011
"Seventy-two labors brought us this food, we should know how it comes to us..."  - From the Soto Zen Meal Gatha
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The Coming Age of Humanity
by Jerry Kolber
January 5, 2011
- revolutions (like office politics, relationship fights, and traffic jams) always seem more eternal and momentous when you're right in the middle of them.  Movements that you think are absolutely, unquestionably changing the entire world...
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