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Robert W. Fuller is a physicist, a former president of Oberlin College, and author of The Rowan Tree: A Novel. He has consulted with Indira Gandhi, met with Jimmy Carter regarding the president's Commission on World Hunger, worked in the USSR to defuse the Cold War, and, recently, keynoted a Dignity for All conference hosted by the president of Bangladesh. Fuller's books on dignity and rankism have been published in India, Bangladesh, Korea, and China, and featured in the New York Times, the Oprah Magazine, the Boston Globe, NPR, C-Span, the BBC, and in TED talks.

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SHARE More Sharing        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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(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, December 24, 2016
Donald Trump, Orchestra Conductor Like all demagogues, Trump is not a creator but an orchestrator of popular resentment.
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SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, March 8, 2016
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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(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, January 21, 2016
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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(8 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, June 24, 2015
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.
(10 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, April 5, 2015
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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(6 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, February 2, 2015
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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(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, January 22, 2015
6 Reasons You Can't Win (And 3 Reasons You Can Anyway) Our notion of selfhood is misconceived.
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(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, December 13, 2013
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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(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, December 9, 2013
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, 13501 views)
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, December 5, 2013
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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(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, December 3, 2013
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, 13501 views)
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(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, November 26, 2013
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, 13501 views)
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(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, November 20, 2013
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, 13501 views)
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(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, November 12, 2013
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, 13501 views)
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(9 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, November 5, 2013
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, 13501 views)
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(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, October 29, 2013
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, 13501 views)
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(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, October 22, 2013
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, 13501 views)
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(17 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, October 15, 2013
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, 13501 views)
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(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, October 10, 2013
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, 13501 views)

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