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Entries by Peter Clothier from 06/2012

Review: 'Heaven on Earth: The Varieties of the Millennial Experience'

| Posted 06.05.2012 | Books
Read More: Heaven on Earth Book, Richard Landes, 2012 End of the World, Cults, Millennial Experience, Books News

Millennial madness is with us again as December 2012 looms and, with it, the end of the world as we know it, as "predicted" by the Mayan calendar. It's a good moment, then, to take note of Richard Landes' Heaven on Earth.

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War on Democracy?

| Posted 06.08.2012 | Politics
Read More: Bill Clinton, Politics, Hillary Clinton, Scott Walker, Scott Walker Recall, Wisconsin Recall, Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, Right Wing Conspiracy, Republicans, Labor Unions, Politics News

The disempowerment of the unions as a political force has been the goal of the wealth-driven right wing for years.

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You Can't Tell a Book...

| Posted 06.19.2012 | Books
Read More: Book Reviews, Tsoknyi Rinpoche, Buddhism, Books News

Each reader will come away from Open Minds, Open Heart with what she or he needs to learn, and with a renewed sense of the mind's potential to enrich both our individual selves and those with whom we share this planet.

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The Big Rock -- and the Very Small Room

| Posted 06.28.2012 | Arts
Read More: Contemporary Art, Levitated Mass Michael Heizer, Los Angeles Levitated Mass, Los Angeles Contemporary Art, Levitated Mass, Levitated Mass Rock, Los Angeles County Museum, Arts News

You could hardly have lived in Southern California these past three months and not know something about this massive, 340-ton granite boulder and its journey from the quarry in Riverside County where the artist laid claim to it.

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