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Karmic historiography
The karma of this place
August 27, 2025
The moral problem attendant on many deployments of the concept of karma is that it has been used to “blame the victim.” That is, karma has been used to explain the suffering…
August 27, 2025
Karmic historiography
Karma as active resistance
August 20, 2025
Karma is one of the most well-known concepts associated with Buddhism in the West. In many Asian countries where Buddhism has shaped the social and cultural landscape for more than a millennium,…
August 20, 2025
Essays
Revisited: Political religion and crises of legitimacy
August 14, 2025
In 2017, I argued that the concepts of civil and political religions help explain contemporary sociopolitical developments in Russia and the United States.
August 14, 2025
Karmic historiography
Algorithmic karma in digital samsara
August 13, 2025
I stand in line at the grocery store, my jittery trigger-thumb summoning successive apparitions of image, sound, and text that stream incessantly into my downcast eyes. They excite, terrify, amuse, and deaden.…
August 13, 2025
Karmic historiography
Karmic historiography
August 6, 2025
A lawyer friend explained it to me this way: Since the 1980s, lawyers with specialized expertise and exclusive relationships—especially those involved in high-stakes deals like mergers and acquisitions—have been generating irresistibly large…
August 6, 2025
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