Greetings Reader, Happy Day-After-Your-Birthday, United States of America. How’s the hangover? Did you see the crowd at the Freedom 250 Salute to America on the National Mall? It was packed to the brim! It was bigger than the crowd at Obama’s first inauguration, bigger than the Chicago Cubs World Series Victory Rally in 2016, even bigger than Maha Kumbha Mela! I hope everyone there was on the lookout for the "resurgence of the communist menace," a greater threat to the country than World War...

Greetings Reader - Our free monthly series, Community Conversations, continues next week. This month we're going to explore questions around challenges faced by neurodivergent people, particularly in yoga communities and classes. Neurodivergence is a non-medical term describing people whose brains function and process information differently from the "typical" social standard. It is an umbrella term, not a diagnosis, encompassing a wide spectrum of natural human variations such as Autism,...

Greetings Reader, I was talking with a friend this past week about an interesting thought experiment he and a few other guys are collaborating on. The experiment uses a fictional story, set in a post-capitalist future in which AI-driven robots do everything that needs to be done and all basic human needs are (somehow) provided for, as a vehicle to explore two questions, posed by the story’s main character: “Does my life have any meaning if I don’t have to do anything?" "If not, how do I...