The higher path is love, peace, and civility. But civilization is not built by denying danger. It is built by rising above our animal programming while protecting the fragile conditions that make kindness possible.

The most dangerous movements often announce their ambitions clearly. The failure of civilized societies is not a lack of warning, but the refusal to believe what predators say they intend to do.

Sentient AI robots will only pose a threat to humanity if they are programmed with a survival instinct.

A karmic university is a beautiful analogy for the meaning of our lives on Earth.

Racism and bigotry — and the emotion of fear from which they emanate — are instinctive. They are biological survival imperatives shared by all humans.

THE PROBLEM: Adolescent stress and anxiety are reaching epidemic proportions in our society, as borne out by research. Parents are doing...

Humans have always caged animals. Of course, we have also caged and killed each other! The question we take on is whether or not animals...

THE PROBLEM I have become increasingly aware of how difficult it seems to be for people with different views to have a respectful and...