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Society

A fresh look at controversial or popular topics in modern history and culture from those who lived them.

Inside The U.S. Institute of Peace - Interview with Attorney Neil Kritz

Inside The U.S. Institute of Peace

Tucked away inside the National Restaurant Association building within the heart of Washington D.C. is a little known government funded nonprofit organization - the United States Institute of Peace. Its origins can be traced back...

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The Story Behind 2012 Time for Change - Interview with Daniel Pinchbeck

The Story Behind 2012 Time for Change

The documentary, 2012 Time for Change, was originally released in 2010. It has been acclaimed at film festivals and continues to be shown at special screenings throughout the United Sates and Canada. SuperConsciousness Magazine reviewed the film...

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Rally Against Misogynistic Lyrics - Women’s Rebellion: From Outrage to Action

Rally Against Misogynistic Lyrics

The growing movement against misogynistic lyrics in popular rap and hip hop music found momentum in an unlikely place earlier this year – on the radio show of Don Imus, a middle-aged, white male shock jock...

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The Power of the Middle Class - How Being Rich is a State of Mind

The Power of the Middle Class

In your social consciousness in all humanity, assessing those instruments of knowledge that I gave you, those elements of your socioeconomic system are extraordinarily accurate. It is also with some dismay that there is an acceptable resolution...

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Creating the Future of Business - Interview with Kazimierz Gozdz

Creating the Future of Business

As the engines of great progress and invention, business organizations have been some of the most powerful creations of human kind in the past century. Yet it has become all too clear that these same institutions have also been the force behind...

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The Power Is Within You - Spiritual Leader JZ Knight Talks About Our Innate Ability to Change the World

The Power Is Within You

Allow me to read to you the transcript of a profound and moving commercial from Care.org. I saw it in Italy and to this date I have never seen it played in the US. “There is a natural resource that exists everywhere on the planet...

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Education and Income Inequality - Studies Show How Providing All Children with Enriched Environments Pays Off

Education and Income Inequality

America is a nation of paradoxes, including one that is often overlooked. In the land where “all people are created equal” a glaring inequality exists: all children do not receive an equal education, yet they are expected to compete on equal footing...

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Stockpiling to Save Money - Economist Andrew Tobias Talks About the Greatest Investment You Can Make: Buying Bulk On Sale

Stockpiling to Save Money

Charles Revson, the late cosmetics tycoon, bought his mouthwash by the case. By doing so, although it was the furthest thing from his mind, he did better investment-wise than he ever did in the stock market. In the stock market, with his...

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X-Prize, Zero-G, and James Cameron - An Amazing Story of Flying Zero-G Flight with James Cameron

X-Prize, Zero-G, and James Cameron

Since late 2004, I have had an interest in the evolution of the X-Prize, the first of which was named Ansari and awarded to Paul Allen’s team for their experimental spaceplane, SpaceShipOne. So it came as no surprise when an email appeared in my Inbox...

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Spontaneous Altruism in Toddlers - Interview with Dr. Felix Warneken

Spontaneous Altruism in Toddlers

A recent article in New Scientist named altruism as one of the ten great mysteries of human behavior, alongside kissing, blushing and laughter. For scientists, altruism has long presented a conundrum: Why do people help others...

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