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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.
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Who Are You? Why Everything You Know about Your "Self" Is Wrong. This is the first post in the series "Why Everything You Know about Your 'Self' Is Wrong." The series explores how our understanding of selfhood affects our sense of individuality, our interpersonal relationships, and our politics.
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100 Words on Love: Unrequited Discovering what doesn't work, provides the clues we need to change.

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

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The Self Is Dead -- Long Live the Superself The answer to "Who am I?" at the dawn of the age of smart machines is that, for the time being, we ourselves are the best model-building machines extant.
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"Self" Is a Misnomer As our genome needs nutrition to build our body, so our menome depends on recognition from others to create and husband a viable identity.
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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 Superself: Genome, Menome, and Wenome Our selves are far more extensive than we've been led to believe. They extend beyond our own bodies to include what we think of as other selves and the world. We live in the minds of others, and they in ours.
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Am I a Home for Identities? The more flexible, forgiving attitude that results when we see our self as a home for transient identities turns out to be the perspective we need to maintain our dignity in adversity and accord it to others in theirs.
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Models of Dignity This is the fourth 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, 13550 views)

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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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What Was the Most Important Thing People Learned in the 20th Century? During the current century we'll have to reconceive our relationship to smart machines as their creative intelligence overtakes our own. Dealing with this humbling development will change our sense of self even more profoundly than the 20th-century realization that we're not as special as we thought.

(1 comments) SHARE        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.
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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.

(17 comments) SHARE        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.
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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.
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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, 13550 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.
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All Rise: Somebodies, Nobodies, and the Politics of Dignity (Chapter 1) This is the second 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.
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(4 comments) SHARE        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.
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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.
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(5 comments) SHARE        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.
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All Rise: Somebodies, Nobodies, and the Politics of Dignity (Introduction) This is the first 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.
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(1 comments) SHARE        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, 13550 views)

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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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Dignity and Recognition This is the third 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.
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(3 comments) SHARE        Sunday, June 23, 2013
Something America and China Could Do Together China and America, as the two twenty-first-century superpowers, must build trust and act together to steer the world away from rapid environmental degradation and war. A shared interest in universal dignity serves as common ground for the trust-building process. Principles of dignitarian governance can reinforce accountability and provide a basis for concerted action.

(5 comments) SHARE        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.

(6 comments) SHARE        Monday, August 12, 2013
What is Man? Rather than masking the indissoluble interconnectedness of selves--as the notion of individual selfhood does--superselfhood embraces it.
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(8 comments) SHARE        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.

SHARE        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.