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... to vindicate a dramatic turn by the Left in the past forty years toward a primary focus on identity politics, particularly highlighting the Left’s efforts to counter certain forms of oppression faced by women, African Americans, LGBTQ people, Latinos, Asian Americans, immigrants, and people with disabilities...

..., and colonialism. Ironically and tragically, it is only when we took steps to reclaim our indigeneity that we became colonizers. I want to tell the story of what I — an Israeli Jew in voluntary political exile — see from my particular vantage point. I want to tell the story because in so many self-defined...

...Rabbi Michael Lerner Copyright © 2018 Tikkun magazine 2018 i first got introduced to identity politics growing up during and after the Holocaust. For large numbers of Jews at that time the murder of one out of every three Jews on the planet Earth who were alive in 1940 was a trauma...

...Karen Brodkin Copyright © 2018 Tikkun magazine 2018 Donald trump and his cronies have ignited the most massive and broad-based resistance and democracy movement in my lifetime, maybe in American history. What’s the place of identity politics (for want of a better catch phrase...

...Eric Ward Copyright © 2018 Tikkun magazine 2018 TIKKUN: How did identity politics become a central part of liberation struggles? The modern emergence of “identity politics” occurs within the liberation movements that arose in the wake of the 1960’s Civil Rights campaigns. Huge...

...Simon Mont We often exhibit two responses to this truth that create deep tension, particularly in the world of identity politics. Fortunately, there is a third choice that presents an alternative path. The first response is to tune into a dimension of reality that does not carry the message...

...Edward Kaplan Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2007 Heschel on Vietnam Protest & Political Action by Edward Kaplan Abraham Joshua...

... of the contemporary social world. Such a redefinition places us fully on the side of the need for achieving literacy, more comprehensively and relevantly construed. Because there is great interest and support across the political spectrum for helping youngsters learn to decipher and discriminate among the complex...

...Hillary Clinton Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2016 ( original editor’s note : A month after Michael Lerner’s March/April editorial argued that the United States needed a politics of meaning that would address the psychological, ethical, and spiritual crisis of American society, a few weeks...

... are used to justify them. Finally, Seuss suggests the possibility of moral and political transformation. This transformation requires the creation of new selves, liberated from orthodox assumptions about scientific truth, gender, and the limited range of moral choice in the world. So transformed, we might...

...Eugene B. Borowitz The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics, and the Modern West , by Lilia Mark , Knopf , 2007 Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2008 C U L T U R E...

... by Powell Sara R. , Pluto Press , 2008 The Political Economy of Media , McChesney Robert W. , Monthly Review Press , 2008 Mindful Economics , Magnuson Joel , Seven Stories Press , 2008 Psalms of the Jewish Liturgy , Glazer Miriyam , Aviv Press 2008...

...Andrew Samuels Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2009 T he R enaissance o f W estern P olitics: The Good-Enough Leader, Relational Economics, and an Empathic Foreign Policy by Andrew Samuels I. Hope And Disappointment In Politics...

...George Vradenburg Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2009 THE CONTRARIAN The Messy Politics of Health Care BY GEORGE VRADENBURG O YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT CONGRESS...

...Alana Yu-lan Price Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2010 QUEER SPIRITUALITY AND POLITICS The Transformative Promise of Queer Politics by AlanaYu-lan Price he lieutenant has handcuffed...

...Debra Kolodny Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2010 OUEER SPIRITUALITY AND POLITICS Bisexuality—Theology and Politics by Debra Kolodny egardless of the structure, rituals, and someone of another gender. Ironically...

... .tik k u n .o rg /jo b s . A Politics Based on Soul Force b y M a r i a n n e W i l l i a m s o n THINK THAT IF YOU’RE LOOKING AT THE WORLD TODAY been given by the great spiritual traditions of the world on how...

...Henry A. Giroux Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2012 T he upcoming election of 2012 presents a challenge to progressives whose voices have been excluded from both the mainstream media and the corridors of political power. Under such circumstances, politics dissolves into pathology as those who...

.... When people ask what kind of medicine I’m practicing, I now say political medicine because it’s the mother of all illnesses. We’ve got to fix this one in order to fix all the other things that ail us! I became alarmed about twenty years ago about the new epidemics of chronic disease — skyrocketing...