Table of Contents: Fall 2017

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Emerging Ideas

Public Banking Goes to Pot

Can the cannabis industry help launch the nation’s first public bank in nearly a century?

by Jeremy Lybarger, from High Country News

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Faint Sounds, Loud Impact

At the edge of our industrialized wildlands, Kurt Fristrup is listening.

Interview by Timothy A. Schuler, from Landscape Architecture Magazine

Gleanings

Living Death

Keeping the culture of Indigenous peoples alive through the power of storytelling

by Siku Allooloo, from Briarpatch

One Monsoon

From a continent away, a young Peace Corps worker senses all is not well back home.

by Don Messerschmidt, from The Common

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Impermanence

Learning From the Man Known Only as ‘Him’

Navigating the moral complexities inherent in dissecting cadavers

by Jeanette Der Bedrosian, from John Hopkins Magazine

The Lost Picture Show

After embracing magnetic tape storage, Hollywood archivists struggle to keep pace with the technology.

by Marty Perlmutter, from IEEE Spectrum

Imagining Sanskrit Land

Religious nationalism and transglobal yoga

by Patrick McCartney, from Arena Magazine

Sanctuary

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Too Sick to Go Home – Too Poor to Get Better

Micronesian migrants struggle for health care in U.S.

by Krista Langlois, from The New Territory

Maroons and the Dismal Swamp

One road out of slavery took you straight into the boggiest place you’ve ever been.

by William H. Funk, from Humanities

Extra Kindness for the Most Vulnerable (and Resilient) Mariposas

LGBTQ refugees and immigrants often lack a supportive network of fellow nationals – but now that’s changing.

by Norman Allen, from YES! Magazine

A List of My Utopias

A collection of utopias and a reflection of life.

by Debbie Urbanski, from The Sun

Mindful Living

A World Ever at Its End

Living amid the destruction of everything we ever knew

by Douglas Penick, from Tricycle

Meeting Nature as a Presence

Aldo Leopold and the deeper nature of Nature

by Craig Holdrege, from In Context

Mixed Media

Rap on Trial

Are rap lyrics about crime evidence of real criminality?

by Matthew Dewald, from University of Richmond Magazine

Family Values

The women of the Addams Family as the Divine Feminine

by Gabriela Herstik, from Sabat Magazine

Propagandopoly: Monopoly as an Ideological Tool

Known around the world as a symbol of both the fun and folly of capitalism, Monopoly has often been viewed as a vehicle for political indoctrination.

by Naomi Russo, from Works That Work

Technician of the Sacred

Three recent books demonstrate that John Cage is overdue for a populist revival

by Tim Keane, from Utne Reader

Editor’s Note

by Ben Sauder

Forward

by Eric Utne