The Misery that Will Come: Notes on the 2024 US Election By Marcia Pally When you strike a tuning fork, for a moment you hear not only the odd A-note designed for musical instruments but also an atmospheric suspension. The air’s sub-atomic particles, hovering. That was election day 2024, a Read more
The Climate Crisis Through the Eye of the Needle: Ecology, Economics, and Religion A Counterpoint Conversation with Joerg Rieger, Annika Rieger, and Marcia Pally 5 July 2022, 10:00-12:00 CET | Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Berlin and Zoom Counterpoint and the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Berlin co-organized a conversation about the deep structural links Read more
Hunting Where the Ducks Are: The Big-Picture of White Evangelical Populism in the US By Marcia Pally White evangelicals comprise a full 25 percent of American voters. Many have supported Vladimir Putin, both before the invasion of Ukraine and since. In 2015, Franklin Graham (son of Billy Graham, leader of Read more
Not Survival, but Prophecy… Is This a Monastic Moment? By Dion Forster In some parts of the world daily life is starting to return to “normal,” whatever that may mean. Of course, this is not the case for everybody. Poorer persons in poorer regions of the world continue to face Read more
Everybody Knows By Marcia Pally It feels like the whole thing is falling apart. Not just a tragic news story here or there but the whole network of human-human and human-planet interactions that makes life as we know it. Kaboom: Haiti, Afghanistan, unprecedented flooding, ditto for fires, the 19-year-old Covid-vaccinated Read more
Wounds and Lies that Bind: The Need to Believe By Marcia Pally It’s two weeks since the seditious riot at the U.S. capitol. It’s two months of Donald Trump’s refusal to concede an election whose vote-count was validated by Republican election officials and over 60 courts—including twice by the Supreme Read more
Elephants, Taxes, and Where We Live By Marcia Pally Last week, we had a torrent of news about Donald Trump’s taxes—profits, losses, and massive tax avoidance. This was just about the time I was looking at the book Circling the Elephant, and it turns out that one has quite a Read more
This is Not a World of One: Our Separability-Amid-Situatedness By Marcia Pally What’s the disconnect? I’m sitting in Washington Square Park in N.Y., which I treat as my “backyard” as its curving paths and grand old trees are a block from my door. All sorts of folks are walking, cycling, Read more
In the Midst of a Global Pandemic: A Conversation about Dependency, Interconnectedness, and Planetarity 15 May 2020 Dorothea Green Lecture Series, Steven J. Green School of International & Public Affairs The current Covid crisis, among other things, highlights our dependency upon human others: not just medical workers, but the people who Read more
There’s Something Wrong With Iowa—Or With the Species? By Marcia Pally There’s something wrong with Iowa. Those of us who still think the US elections represent the will and choice of the people have spent the last few days barraged with articles telling us that something in Iowa is awry. Read more