Whole Earth, Summer 2000
“I’d explore one group’s convictions, granting them the benefit of the doubt, and see how it felt to see the world through their eyes. In due course, I’d do the same with the next, and the next. The result of this exercise […] was a kind of self-deprogramming, wherein terms like “left” or “right” simply lost their negative or positive charge.”
- Published: Summer 2000
- Collection: Whole Earth Magazine
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Sections:
- Beyond Left and Right. Special Section: Guest Editor Jay Kinney
- Other Features
- Books & Resources
- Backmatter
Whole Earth, Summer 2000
- NEXT MED
- The Doctor’s Dilemma: AN INTERVIEW WITH RACHEL NAOMI REMEN, M.D. With the managed-care and hi-tech assault on medicine, can physicians recover the Hippocratic oath, and a sense of healing as a service
- Introduction by Peter Warshall11
- Fertility: Sperm from the dead, the sterile, and the divorced. Children from three parents. When exactly does an embryo become a human? And whose child is it?12
- Longevity: Will we soon choose when we die? Is death control the next issue after birth control?14
- Organs: Organ Transplants in the Global Markety by Nancy Scheper-Huges16
- Embryonic Stem Cells: These totipotent cells are considered the universal repair material for human organs. Is there an ethical source?19
- Xenotransplants: Are pig hearts and kidneys the solution to the demand for organ replacements?20
- Genomics: Should there be limits to engineering embryos and genomes? How far should we go in designing our children to be super-smart, super-athletic, or free from genetic disease?21
- BEYOND LEFT AND RIGHT. SPECIAL SECTION: GUEST EDITOR JAY KINNEY
- Introduction by Jay Kinney23
- Beyond Ideology by Julius Lester: From “We Shall Overcome” to “Black Power” and beyond: An inside account of one man’s journey through radical politics.30
- The Way of Love by Bill Kauffman: Dorothy Day and the American Right: Mixing up categories and stirring up trouble with the Catholic Workers.38
- Storm Warning: Are Left and Right Obsolete? A symposium Progressives Against Progress! By Charles Siegel44
- Left and Right: An Outworn Framework by Joseph R. Stromberg45
- “Socialism is Dead”…Really? By Mark Dowie46
- How About That Green Option? By Charlene Spretnak47
- Hay Foot, Straw Foot by Stephanie Mills49
- Escaping the matrix by Richard K. Moore: What if Consensus reality is a fabricated illusion? Are you ready for the red pill?51
- To Save the Whooping Crane, You Need Two Wings by Peter Warshall: In local politics, labels lose their meaning.60
- Life and Libertarians by Alexander Cockburn: Beyond Left and Right. What transpires when the author accepts an invitation to speak at an antiwar conference hosted by…(gulp)…libertarians in suits.62
- The War Party vs. the Peace Party by Justin Raimondo: A jolly rant against interventionism, dreams of Empire, and their exponents.67
- Other Features
- Carlos Santana: An interview with STEVE HEILIG72
- Submarine Song and the Naval Boom Box by MICHAEL STOCKER: Are cetacean strandings a red flag, warning of the need for a quieter sea?81
- Eco-Art A photo essay by LYNNE HULL, NATALIE JEREMIJENKO, AND KATHRYN MILLER: Three women meld ecological processes, imagination, fun, and responsibility into their art and happenings.92
- Margaret Mead 2001 Awards Winner: Ambassadors Program of Americans for Indian Opportunity98
- BOOKS & RESOURCES
- Medicine’s Future
- My Grandfather’s Blessings5
- Death of the Good Doctor10
- The Ultimate Journey10
- High-Tech Conception13
- Life without Disease20
- Access: Dr. Remen’s Choices10
- Access: Organ Transplant18
- Access: Stem Cell19
- Beyond Left and Right
- Access: Escaping the Matrix54
- Whales
- Gift of the Whale84
- Kenneth S. Norris85
- Men & Whales85
- Shipwreck of the Whaleship Essex85
- Access: Acoustics83
- Homesite Sewage
- The Septic System Owner’s Manual88
- The Composting Toilet System Book 8989
- Drainfield Protector89
- Outlet Tee Filters89
- Toto Low-Flush Toilet89
- Drain King90
- Everyone Poops90
- The Gas We Pass90
- Other Reviews
- The Beat78
- Africana79
- Making Gourd Musical Instruments80
- A Dark Place in the Jungle86
- Orangutan Odyssey86
- Chasing Rickshaws9
- New Cycle Rickshaw9
- Women Environmental Artists Directory93
- Dharma Rain97
- Hidden Wisdom97
- Visions of a New Earth97
- Full Circles, Overlapping Lives100
- Steps to an Ecology of Mind100
- The Apache Diaries101
- Backmatter
- Gossip102
- Letters and Corrections103
- Updates105
- Thanks106
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