January 2026

Your Kindred Winter Issue can be found here. Subscribe to Kindred's Quarterly Issues. The 13th Fairy Naming Ceremony: Welcoming the Uninvited and…

We need to heal the ways we think, feel, relate, exchange, and exist. The only possible answer is healing as a collective body. Maria Jara Qquerar, Quechua…

Our world has become a panopticon. Many of us re controlled by constant technological surveillance and control devices that cause us to be unaware of or unable…

Most conversations about authoritarianism focus on political authoritarianism, which is becoming more familiar in societies today. But there are many kinds of…

Do you think authoritarianism is new to the USA? Hardly. The society is imbued with authoritarianism. Authoritarianism here refers to external idealistic…

Eidelson and Eidelson some years ago pointed out five dangerous ideas that lead to conflict between groups. Notice how authoritarian discourse and today’s…

A skittish fish can transmit misinformation to a group of fish and threaten their survival by moving them away from food sources. Evolution promoted defenses…

Dear Kindred, The ongoing, intensifying cultural debate – or investor-driven hype – around AI seems engineered to skip over the obvious, central…

How does Riane Eisler’s partnership model of leadership transform our understanding of politics, economics, and social change in an age of trauma and…

Helena Norberg-Hodge’s 80th birthday is an occasion to honor a lifetime – 50 years –  of devotion to living, local, life-centered cultures—the very ground…