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Charles is a writer, philosopher, speaker and pioneer, who has been exploring the need for society’s transformation for some years now. He has focused light on our economic, social and political systems, and the need for us to move from a paradigm of separation to that of interbeing. His work can be found at charleseisenstein.org.

november 01,2025

Author and cultural commentator CHARLES EISENSTEIN extends last month’s argument about virtual substitutes hollowing out reality—this time to AI’s imitation of intimacy—and points to what only embodie...

november 2025

october 01,2025

Virtual Intelligence

Author and cultural critic CHARLES EISENSTEIN opens a two-part series exploring how virtual substitutes for real experience have created a profound sense of alienation in modern life.Anyone who has at...

october 2025

september 01,2023

True wealth for one and all

CHARLES EISENSTEIN challenges our reliance on money to cater to all our needs, and asks, “What is the corollary to such a life?”A privileged person is somebody who doesn’t have or doesn’t need communi...

september 2023

july 31,2023

Three priorities for environmental healing

CHARLES EISENSTEIN challenges our current understanding of environmental sustainability, and asks us to reconsider our approaches and practices to environmentalism. In part 1, he dared us to realize t...

july 2023

july 04,2023

How the environmental movement can find its way again

CHARLES EISENSTEIN challenges our current understanding of environmental sustainability, and asks us to reconsider our approaches and practices to environmentalism. He also dares us to realize that it...

july 2023

november 30,2020

Letter to my younger self

In 2015, ERICK JOSEPH filmed CHARLES EISENSTEIN in a short interview for a younger audience. Charles wrote a short essay to accompany the film, which we have reproduced here. D...

november 2020

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