... internationalism and realism fold together since working together is what actually works to secure American interests.” Given the multitude and depth of the challenges this country faces today, and the political and economic polarization in the United States today, the worldview best suited for clear-eyed...

...Frances Moore Lappé Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2007 Heart-Centered Realism by Frances Moore Lappe he word “evil” makes me squirm a little. As a four-year old in Texas in the late 1940s, I visited a Christian Sunday school...

... Gospel, Barthian neo-orthodoxy, Catholic social teaching, early Niebuhrian realism, ecumenical social ethics, liberation theology, progressive evangelicalism, and radical orthodoxy. The Social Gospel expounded a vision...

..., and downplay. Short-term realism will have triumphed over the reality of the shared fu­ ture. For most people the International Panel on Climate Change science remains too abstract, too distant. Every other emergency feels more urgent. Against the current momentum of destruction...

... site: The realism of the estimates depend on the type of community under study. Metropolitan counties are typically locations of high cost. In such cases, the calculator is likely to underestimate costs such as housing and child care. Consider the results a minimum cost threshold that serves...

...To build our own future, here whimsically imagined by Mona Caron in her Utopian San Francisco series (see our Art Gallery at tikkun.org/daily ), the author argues we will need Kautilyan realism as well as Ashokan idealism. ...

... edness,” your “realism,” you face a sim ilar tem ptation with with ptation tem ilar sim a face you “realism,” your “tough-mind- your edness,” demonstrate to Having Vietnam. in war of the Ar­ cliff, the off p jum to urge the like Strangely, apocalypse. by we face abyss...

... makes one open to the long-instilled inner voice of “realism” that yells, “you are just setting yourself up for disappointment” — a voice that seemed validated when Obama so quickly abandoned his own election-year hopefulness and began to frame his decisions in terms of political realism, often...

..., in their separateness. They have decided to embrace an ambiguous, labyrinthine identity—to enjoy their transactions with the Anglo environment. Down with political activism and radical rage, welcome to fashionable exoticism. . .. The fever that once surrounded Latin America’s magic realism. . .. has been eclipsed...

..., Wells-Barnett, and Baptist pastor J. Milton Waldron. The fourth group stood against factional division, calling for a fusion of pro-Washington realism and selective anti-Washington protest militancy. They included Walters, Powell Sr., and Nannie Burroughs. All four of these ideological factions...

... the “fearful realism” that dominates the consciousness not only of the media and the opportunists, but of all of us. Even the progressives and liberals. Everyone of us has such a strong tendency to fall right back into our despair about the possibility of a different kind of world...

... “socialist realism” in the arts, but he does not see this as a significant move away from Che’s “Stalinized” political theory. Ultimately, Farber states that socialism is truly liberating only when society is controlled by those who, through their labor, make social existence possible. A socialist...

..., and downplay. Short-term realism will have triumphed over the reality of the shared fu­ ture. For most people the International Panel on Climate Change science remains too abstract, too distant. Every other emergency feels more urgent. Against the current momentum of destruction...

... and a society based on love is “unrealistic,” then we say “screw realism”—being realistic in a deeper sense is not accepting “reality” as it is currently presented to us. We want a different kind of world and we have...

...). that while comics failed realism (or (or realism failed comics while that and (Hill and Wang), and (Hill...

... celebrations and our efforts to “triumph over cynical realism” [also posted at tikkun.org/chanukah2010 ; please sign up for our emails at tikkun.org/mail ]. Your activism in the Spiritual Progressive movement is, in my opinion, in the forefront of our planetary tikkun olam. I am a septuagenarian graduate...

... into or transmit their views to friends, relatives, a few minutes into the film. I will add, slums, and then get condemned for de­ or veterans groups back home. This would though, that the cast is excellent: Damon struction because they’re so disheartening have added to the picture’s realism, since gets...