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Hope not Hate
Donald Trump retweets Britain First deputy leader's Islamophobic posts UK ambassador conveys concerns over Trump retweet to White House...
Peter Critchley
Dec 1, 201719 min read
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Remembrance
"Life and hope for the world are to be found only in the deeds of love." "For love of domination we must substitute equality; for love of...
Peter Critchley
Nov 27, 201728 min read
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Real Reformation
Real Reformation This article in Church and State had me thinking. Religion’s Dirty Dozen – 12 Really Bad Religious Ideas That Have Made...
Peter Critchley
Nov 24, 201712 min read
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Ecological Restoration as a Restorying
Ecological Restoration as a Restorying The case for an Existential Literary Ecology The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where...
Peter Critchley
Nov 4, 201725 min read
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The Madness of Capitalist Reason
The Madness of Capitalist Reason The demand that Reason take rational social form. Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason...
Peter Critchley
Nov 2, 201715 min read
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Spirit, Reason, Nature, Freedom
SPIRIT, REASON, NATURE AND FREEDOM The True Commonwealth of Gerrard Winstanley REASON, SPIRIT, NATURE, FREEDOM painting by Arik Brauer...
Peter Critchley
Nov 1, 201713 min read
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Love, Liberty and Law
Love, Liberty and Law Then war was not nor riches known no man said this or that is my own Then first the sacred name of the king began...
Peter Critchley
Oct 27, 2017114 min read
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Gerrard Winstanley and the Wealth of the Commons and the Weal of the Commoners
Gerrard Winstanley and the Wealth of the Commons and the Weal of the Commoners I’m just finishing some writing on my man from Wigan, the...
Peter Critchley
Oct 11, 201726 min read
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Climate Accord and the Politics of Friendship
CLIMATE ACCORD AND THE POLITICS OF FRIENDSHIP I’m just putting the finishing touches to a book entitled ‘Dante and the Sweet Symphony of...
Peter Critchley
Sep 29, 201747 min read
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From Core to Infinity
From Core to Infinity - On Disclosure vs Imposure Here is a lively exchange I had on mathematics, foundations, philosophy and praxis. I'm...
Peter Critchley
Jul 26, 201754 min read
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We are all of us much more beautiful than we are told
This is my little tribute to Johan Cruyff, football, and the beauty of the world ‘I’m attracted to soccer’s capacity for beauty. When...
Peter Critchley
Jul 25, 201714 min read
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Giving thanks for the wonder that never ends
Giving thanks for the wonder that never ends I want to examine a couple of texts, one a poem, the other song, one in Hebrew and one in...
Peter Critchley
Jul 19, 201715 min read
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Against Theopolitical Fundamentalism
Against Theopolitical Fundamentalism 'Religion today is not transforming the people - it is being transformed by the people. It is not...
Peter Critchley
Jul 16, 201756 min read
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Pentagon chief says climate change threatens national security
Pentagon chief says climate change threatens national security Climate change is real: Just ask the Pentagon President-elect Donald Trump...
Peter Critchley
Jul 16, 20175 min read
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Reconstituting Public Life
The comments made by this panel of conservative figures from the Aspen Ideas Festival are well worth pondering. Michael Gerson, Peter...
Peter Critchley
Jul 14, 201718 min read
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The Existential Truth About Climate Change
The Existential Truth About Climate Change A comprehensive legal and institutional framework and a social and moral infrastructure You...
Peter Critchley
Jul 10, 201728 min read
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Climate Politics as the Reconstitution of Public Life
How many warnings do a lot of people want out there?! Really!! I was brought up on Jacques Cousteau and his great work. It's not like we...
Peter Critchley
Jul 10, 201715 min read
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Right-Wing Ideology Trumps Common Purpose
Right-Wing Ideology Trumps Common Purpose; or, How Fascism Comes to America I studied Fascism as part of my first degree in history. And...
Peter Critchley
Jul 9, 201739 min read
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To walk like ghosts .. or get politically engaged again
To walk like ghosts or to get politically engaged again. In a scene out of a "Walking Dead" nightmare, Hamburg's streets teemed with...
Peter Critchley
Jul 7, 201711 min read
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Ignoring climate injustice is not a viable survival strategy
Ignoring climate injustice is not a viable survival strategy. Why the Republican Party's climate policy obstruction is indefensible Dana...
Peter Critchley
Jul 6, 201715 min read
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