... and the career counselor. But I have recently come to realize that this work can also be damaging: I see now that for years I unknowingly perpetuated self-blame among those who, despite their best efforts, remain unemployed or underemployed. Ofer Sharone’s book Flawed System/Flawed Self: Job Searching...

... economy can be organized to reduce self-blame and empower workers.] empower and self-blame reduce to can be organized economy for as a Ofer Sharone columnist come wel­ to to delighted We stress. buffer are use ability social to supports better and health, of sense better power...

..., families so unstable and often unfulfilling, and friendships so tainted by the ethos of me-firstism that pre­ dominates in the capitalist marketplace, people are encouraged to blame...

... forces continue to demean, shame, and blame all those who did not vote for Democrats in the 2016 election. This takes the form of suggesting that all of these tens of millions of people who voted for Trump and other Republicans (or who did not bother to vote) did so because they are racist, sexist...

... not win him a majority of the votes cast by Democrats in the 2016 presidential primaries. Given his powerful fundraising from millions of Americans, they can’t blame it on the candidate not having enough money to finance a competitive campaign. Sanders rarely addressed the hidden injuries of class...

... of people on the Left who have learned how to recognize and transform blaming into compassion for those whose own pain has been manipulated into destructive or hurtful actions, ideas, and reactionary movements. The Empathy Tribe will work on two fronts. First, to change the culture of the Left...

.... In our New York Times ad, which we’ve attached to this issue of the magazine, we avoid the discussion of who is really to blame for what happened in Gaza. As you can see by looking at this issue’s letters to the editor, which include a representative sample of responses, many of our readers came...

...Fiona Ostby ( fionaostby.com ) “Many people don’t know about midlife discrimination, which means they blame themselves rather than capitalism,” Gullette writes. “We should fear ageism, not aging.” Illustration by Fiona Ostby. ...

... of Tikkun and in my book The Left Hand of God: Taking Back Our Country from the Religious Right , I’ve explained how the self- blaming generated by the capitalist ideology of meritocracy makes tens of millions of people feel bad about themselves, and while the Right relieves the self- blaming (although...

...” and thereby breeds a “new generation of terrorists.” On several occasions she has blamed this alleged anti-Semitic indoctrination for Palestinian violence. The only source she has cited to uphold these charges, however, has been the Center for Monitoring the Impact of Peace (CMIP), a right-wing group based...

...: blaming Israel is not the path to statehood. Were the Kurds to continue to blame their woes, legitimately or otherwise, exclusively on Iraq or Syria, they would be wallowing in the same no-win situation. The last thing the Middle East needs is another failed state that blames others for its flaws...

.... Is this, then, the argument we want to see the light of day? I am no friend of Israel, but I am gravely concerned with the future of American Judaism and how the reduced status of a post First Republic America will be abused to blame America’s Jews for America’s post imperial existence. If Israel is in any way involved...

..., as a sacred commitment to address the anguish of living in an alienated modem world. Another of Obama’s strengths is his substantial emotional intelligence, which enables him to acknowledge the pain suffered by different constituencies, to forgo scape­ goating and blame, and to challenge his own...

... is not just the budget cuts, it is the misplaced priorities that our budgets reflect. So if not the teacher unions, who is to blame for the state of our schools? After all, the situation isn’t pretty. Over 25 percent of U.S. students fail to graduate high school each year. In Chicago, that rate rises...

...RAYMOND BARGLOW Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2014 Y ou have the flu? How did you get it?” The simple medical answer is, “I was attacked by a flu virus.” Ah yes, but what did you do that gave the virus the opportunity to attack you? There is always a way to wring at least a little blame...