Introduction: Deliberative democracy, West and East Democracies today face turbulent times. Populism, polarization, and entrenched inequality threaten their foundations, while…
Buddhism and deliberative democracy
Buddhism
For all intents and purposes (the ecology)
Technology looms large in the contemporary world, and powerful new tools to extract and generate texts using large language models…
Risky play
The challenge “Interdependence” is often evoked as a Buddhist term, but it is also frequently misappropriated in terms of “relational…
The karma of not caring
People who work with Buddhist texts and philosophies know that the Buddha said, “It is volition (cetanā) that I call…
Twin dangers: Assumed consensus and false consciousness
The idea of “karmic historiography” is new to me. Karma at minimum means that sentient beings are in some way…
Actualizing the Buddha ancestors: Buddhist historiography for the multiverse
To speak of “systemic” injustice is to acknowledge that large-scale practices and policies may generate inequitable outcomes regardless of the…
The karma of this place
The moral problem attendant on many deployments of the concept of karma is that it has been used to “blame…
Karma as active resistance
Karma is one of the most well-known concepts associated with Buddhism in the West. In many Asian countries where Buddhism…
Algorithmic karma in digital samsara
I stand in line at the grocery store, my jittery trigger-thumb summoning successive apparitions of image, sound, and text that…
Karmic historiography
A lawyer friend explained it to me this way: Since the 1980s, lawyers with specialized expertise and exclusive relationships—especially those…