We’re never as strong as we think.

Since technology is often ahead of consciousness, society manages to create weapons that are a serious detriment to our well-being. The deepest, most fundamental, spiritual insight is that we are […]

The measure of a good life is the cultivation of compassion as well as a deeper understanding of the self.

People must understand that they are neither as powerful as their fantasies, nor as powerless as their nightmares. There is a necessity to practice compassion, which flows outward, in a […]

Bono and Alfredo Barraza.

As an age of paradoxes.

This country has a terribly hard time saying that we were wrong and that we made a mistake.

How the United States will cope with China’s rising prominence.

The long shadow of the Holocaust.

Harbison sees some hopeful signs.

Harbison can read the King James Bible over and over.

Unfortunately right now religion is being used to legitimate people’s group and political identities rather than actually destabilizing all identities so that new relationships can be developed across every possible […]

We have a tremendous attraction to intolerance bred into the early life of this country, Harbison says.

Harbison cultivates his self-confidence.

From his traditional Jewish parents, Kula learned that throughout any practice and ritual in any religious system or any theory about living, there must be people who can produce food. […]

The younger generation never had to go through composer’s boot camp.

John Harbison discusses creative process. He believes everyone has their own process.

Even a negative reaction is good.

Growing up in a traditional Jewish home and attending Columbia University, Kula cites the diversity of New York City in terms of people, ideas, food, and music, as an experience […]

On composing around the digressive, self-centered poetry of Newash.