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Institute of World Culture
Editorial Essays on World Culture

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“Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been
known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.”

                 –
Matthew Arnold (1822–1888), British poet, critic

                    Literature and Dogma, (preface, 1873)                                      

 
    Table of Contents
Current Issue
   
March 2010
  Stones into Schools
     
Archives
   
2010
   
January 2010
  THEME: Reflections on Pioneers of World Culture
February 2010
  Gandhi's Path to Tolerance
     
Archives
   
2009
   
January 2009
THEME: Spiritual Values in a World Culture by Carolyn Dorrance
The Promise of a Fresh Beginning by Carolyn Dorrance
February 2009
Reflections on the Hands-on Gandhian Retreat by Renée Tillotson
March 2009
Inspiration and Originality by Lewis Carroll
April 2009
Chivalry by George William Russell (A.E.)
May 2009
Reflections on the Messages of the Dalai Lama by Russ and Gerry Lewin
June 2009
Emerson on Circles by Joseph Miller
July 2009
Religious Freedom in a Republic of Conscience by Carolyn Dorrance
August 2009
Impressionism: a Turning Point by Joyce Johnson
September 2009
Music of the Wild by Gerry Lewin
October 2009
  The Need for Global Vision in an Era of Modernity by Marshall G. S. Hodgson
November 2009
  The New Theory of Science by Ernst Mayr
December 2009
  Exerpts from Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Musings on Spiritual Striving by Editor
2008
 
January 2008
THEME: Imaginative Use of Spiritual, Mental and Material Resources by Carolyn Dorrance (Aim 7)
Turning the World Upside Down by Carolyn Dorrance
February 2008
Sustainable Urbanism and the Future of Santa Barbara by Kirk Gradin
Why Watch Shakespeare? by Renée Tillotson
April 2008
Thinking Locally, Acting Globally by Carolyn Dorrance
June 2008
A Community of Truth by Phil Grant
July 2008
Honoring Tradition by Carolyn Dorrance
September 2008
Satya and Ahimsa by Raghavan Iyer
December 2008
Environmentalists Must Also Undertake a Paradigm Shift by Wolfgang Sachs (edited by Philip Grant)
April 2007
Sacred Observances by Carolyn Dorrance
May 2007
Daring to be Different by Carolyn Dorrance
July 2007
What is World Culture? by Carolyn Dorrance
August 2007
Finding Courage by Carolyn Dorrance
September 2007
Musings on Deep Democracy by Maurice Bisheff
October 2007
Gandhi's Message of Peace by Gerry Lewin
Transforming Environmental Policy: Carl Pope Speaks at IWC by Joseph Miller & Kirk Gradin
November 2007
Transformation by Carolyn Dorrance