SHARE        Sunday, January 22, 2017
President Trump: Poster Boy for Rankism The protests following the inauguration of President Trump were about more than the dignity of women. They were about dignity for everyone. Someday, the Women's March on Washington may be regarded as marking the birth of a Dignity Movement.

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Donald Trump, Orchestra Conductor Like all demagogues, Trump is not a creator but an orchestrator of popular resentment.

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Dignity's Future With the imminence of game-changers like climate change, nuclear proliferation, and super artificial intelligence, humankind probably has, at most, a century to complete the transition from a predatory to a dignitarian survival strategy.

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How to Keep our Dignity While Ceding Human Preeminence There's no reason to believe that machines of surpassing intelligence will evoke less awe and wonder than organisms that have arisen via natural selection.

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Why Does Racism Persist? Update If anyone took the demise of Jim Crow and the election of a black president to mean that racism was dead, the racist murders at the Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston are sobering reminders that racism lives.

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Why Does Racism Persist? To end racism we must identify and sever the immortal head that keeps the beast alive. Racism's immortal head is rankism.

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A New Default Self The purpose of this essay is to describe the current default self and suggest a new one that can withstand the post-modern critique and incorporate the findings of brain science.

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6 Reasons You Can't Win (And 3 Reasons You Can Anyway) Our notion of selfhood is misconceived.

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Belonging: A Memoir - The Oberlin Years This is an excerpt from Chapter 12 of Belonging, which discusses my years as president of Oberlin College, when the stage was being set for social and political battles that are still being fought today.

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All Rise for Dignity This is the fourteenth part of the serialization of All Rise: Somebodies, Nobodies, and the Politics of Dignity (Berrett-Koehler, 2006). The ideas in this book are further developed in my recent novel The Rowan Tree.
Series: All Rise: Somebodies, Nobodies, and the Politics of Dignity (14 Articles, 14610 views)

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Ending Academic Apartheid: Equity and Dignity for Adjunct Professors Honor requires that colleges and universities take steps to grant equal status and equitable compensation to adjunct faculty.

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The Stealth Revolution This is the thirteenth part of the serialization of All Rise: Somebodies, Nobodies, and the Politics of Dignity (Berrett-Koehler, 2006). The ideas in this book are further developed in my recent novel The Rowan Tree.
Series: All Rise: Somebodies, Nobodies, and the Politics of Dignity (14 Articles, 14610 views)

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Religion in a Dignitarian World This is the twelfth part of the serialization of All Rise: Somebodies, Nobodies, and the Politics of Dignity (Berrett-Koehler, 2006). The ideas in this book are further developed in my recent novel The Rowan Tree.
Series: All Rise: Somebodies, Nobodies, and the Politics of Dignity (14 Articles, 14610 views)

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Globalizing Dignity This is the eleventh part of the serialization of All Rise: Somebodies, Nobodies, and the Politics of Dignity (Berrett-Koehler, 2006). The ideas in this book are further developed in my recent novel The Rowan Tree.
Series: All Rise: Somebodies, Nobodies, and the Politics of Dignity (14 Articles, 14610 views)

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A Culture of Dignity This is the tenth part of the serialization of All Rise: Somebodies, Nobodies, and the Politics of Dignity (Berrett-Koehler, 2006). The ideas in this book are further developed in my recent novel The Rowan Tree.
Series: All Rise: Somebodies, Nobodies, and the Politics of Dignity (14 Articles, 14610 views)

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The Politics of Dignity This is the ninth part of the serialization of All Rise: Somebodies, Nobodies, and the Politics of Dignity (Berrett-Koehler, 2006). The ideas in this book are further developed in my recent novel The Rowan Tree.
Series: All Rise: Somebodies, Nobodies, and the Politics of Dignity (14 Articles, 14610 views)

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The Social Contract in a Dignitarian Society This is the eighth part of the serialization of All Rise: Somebodies, Nobodies, and the Politics of Dignity (Berrett-Koehler, 2006). The ideas in this book are further developed in my recent novel The Rowan Tree.
Series: All Rise: Somebodies, Nobodies, and the Politics of Dignity (14 Articles, 14610 views)

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Rankism Can Be Harmful to Your Health This is the seventhth part of the serialization of All Rise: Somebodies, Nobodies, and the Politics of Dignity (Berrett-Koehler, 2006). The ideas in this book are further developed in my recent novel The Rowan Tree.
Series: All Rise: Somebodies, Nobodies, and the Politics of Dignity (14 Articles, 14610 views)

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Dignity in Education This is the sixth part of the serialization of All Rise: Somebodies, Nobodies, and the Politics of Dignity (Berrett-Koehler, 2006). The ideas in this book are further developed in my recent novel The Rowan Tree.
Series: All Rise: Somebodies, Nobodies, and the Politics of Dignity (14 Articles, 14610 views)

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Dignity in the Workplace This is the fifth part of the serialization of All Rise: Somebodies, Nobodies, and the Politics of Dignity (Berrett-Koehler, 2006). The ideas in this book are further developed in my recent novel The Rowan Tree.
Series: All Rise: Somebodies, Nobodies, and the Politics of Dignity (14 Articles, 14610 views)