Buy The Intercessor paperback or ebook from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org, or Ingram! NOTE: This post is to introduce you to the 69th episode of François Matarasso’s and my monthly podcast, “A Culture of Possibility.” This episode will be available starting 16 October 2026. You can find it and all episodes at iTunes, and …
Buy The Intercessor paperback or ebook from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org, or Ingram! Yesterday, the New York Times published a long, thoughtful, and well-sourced article about a project of the AI company Anthropic designed to explore how artificial intelligence can be guided by moral principles intended to align them with human flourishing and prevent …
Buy The Intercessor paperback or ebook from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org, or Ingram! David Denby has a very interesting piece in The New Yorker on the historian and philosopher Hannah Arendt, drawing on several biographies and her own work. The whole thing is worth reading, but it’s the final quotation that has been burning …
Buy The Intercessor paperback or ebook from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org, or Ingram! NOTE: This post is to introduce you to the 67th episode of François Matarasso’s and my monthly podcast, “A Culture of Possibility.” This episode will be available starting 21 August 2026. You can find it and all episodes at iTunes, and …
Buy The Intercessor paperback or ebook from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org, or Ingram! NOTE: This post is to introduce you to the 66th episode of François Matarasso’s and my monthly podcast, “A Culture of Possibility.” This episode will be available starting 17 July 2026. You can find it and all episodes at iTunes, and …
Buy The Intercessor paperback or ebook from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org, or Ingram! You probably heard that Elon Musk sued Sam Altman and his company, OpenAI, for profiting excessively from what was created as a not-for-profit enterprise. The remedy sought by the world’s richest person? Take a breath to avoid overdosing on irony: $150 …
Buy The Intercessor paperback or ebook from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org, or Ingram! NOTE: This post is to introduce you to the 63rd episode of François Matarasso’s and my monthly podcast, “A Culture of Possibility.” This episode will be available starting 17 April 2026. You can find it and all episodes at iTunes, and …
Buy The Intercessor paperback or ebook from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org, or Ingram! I’m writing this on a transatlantic flight home from the International Community Arts Festival in Rotterdam, where my friend and podcast cohost François Matarasso and I led two workshops, one on cultural policy and one on ethics. We are grateful to …
Buy The Intercessor paperback or ebook from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org, or Ingram! NOTE: This post is to introduce you to the 62nd episode of François Matarasso’s and my monthly podcast, “A Culture of Possibility.” This episode will be available starting 20 March 2026. You can find it and all episodes at iTunes, and …
Buy The Intercessor paperback or ebook from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org, or Ingram! Listen to my new podcast conversation with Bill Cleveland of Art is Change: Strategies and Skills for Activist Artists and Cultural Organizers: NOTE: This post is to introduce you to the 61st episode of François Matarasso’s and my monthly podcast, “A …