“The appropriate standard should remain the same: examine the evidence, apply consistent academic standards, distinguish documented findings from allegations, and avoid treating either someone’s identity or the politics surrounding a controversy as proof of guilt or innocence.”
Children’s Rights, Care, and the Social Construction of Gender
How do relational dynamics, alloparenting, and gender expectations shape children’s development within partnership and domination systems?
“The virtue of studying relational dynamics, which is my methodology, is that it looks at interconnections. It connects the dots.”
This Gay Week 30: Policy, Pride, and Repression
How are U.S. policies and global political movements intensifying threats to LGBTQ rights?
“In democratic systems, they need an imprimatur of legitimacy. This is one way they create it.”
Everywhere Insiders 60: Israel, Icelandic Whaling, AI Cybersecurity, and Cambodia
How do Israel’s generational divide, Icelandic whaling, AI cybersecurity failures, and Cambodia’s human rights crisis reflect broader geopolitical risks?
“Human rights should not depend on whether a population happens to live in a country considered useful by major powers.”
AI, Leisure, Partnership Systems, and Cultural Transformation
How could AI, guaranteed income, and partnership systems transform leisure, caregiving, creativity, and social equality?
“A guaranteed annual income would not be treated merely as an expense, but as an investment in people’s capacity to be creative and to actualize themselves.”
Everywhere Insiders 59: Mamdani, Netanyahu, ICC Warrants, and Morocco’s Lawyers’ Strike
How do ICC warrants and Morocco’s Law No. 66.23 raise concerns about due process, political authority, and lawyers’ independence?
“Allowing state interference with the independence of lawyers to become normalized anywhere can threaten justice elsewhere.”
Social Trust, Domination, and Partnership Systems
How do domination and partnership systems shape social trust, childhood development, gender relations, and public institutions?
Eisler: “You really cannot trust a system that is designed to favour those at the top.”
This Gay Week 29: LGBTQ Rights, Queer Representation, and Political Scapegoating
How do political opportunism, anti-LGBTQ laws, and Hollywood caution affect queer rights, representation, and resilience worldwide?
“People cannot erase us because we have always been here.”
Everywhere Insiders 58: China’s AI Strategy and Far-Left Extremism
How could China overtake U.S. AI leadership, and why does far-left terrorism policy require stronger legal evidence?
“A democratic state cannot ordinarily outlaw an ideology by itself.”
Nnenna Onwukwe on Church-State Separation and America 250
How does Nnenna Onwukwe defend church-state separation during America’s 250th anniversary?
Nnenna Onwukwe: “The separation of church and state protects the country’s diversity, freedom of thought, and freedom of belief.”
Divorce, Patriarchy, Religion, and Partnership Systems
How does Riane Eisler explain the influence of religion, patriarchy, feminism, and legal reform on divorce and partnership systems?
“It would be inaccurate to treat the Muslim world as a single legal system.”
This Gay Week 28: Global LGBTQ Rights Under Pressure
How are political movements, censorship, and healthcare restrictions threatening LGBTQ rights worldwide?
“The computer can die. You cannot. Remember that.”
Economic Abuse, Caregiving, and Women’s Financial Rights
How does Riane Eisler connect economic abuse, unpaid caregiving, financial discrimination, and wealth inequality within domination systems?
“We should understand this spending as an investment in human infrastructure.”
Domestic Violence, Children’s Rights, and Partnership Systems
How does Riane Eisler connect domestic violence, children’s rights, trauma, and social institutions within the partnership systems model?
“The children’s rights movement is therefore extremely important. It has no natural place within a domination system, just as the women’s rights movement has no natural place within such a system.”
No-Fault Divorce, Marriage, and Partnership Systems
How does Riane Eisler’s partnership systems approach explain marriage, no-fault divorce, economic inequality, and continuing family responsibilities?
“Divorce was no longer treated primarily as a matter of proving that one spouse was at fault. It became the legal dissolution of a marriage. But you cannot simply dissolve the economic and parental responsibilities of a family.”
Partnership Economics, Caring Societies, and Beyond Capitalism vs. Socialism
How does Riane Eisler explain partnership economics as an alternative to traditional capitalism and socialism?
“A serious economic theory must ask not only how much is produced, but who exercises power, whose work is recognized, who benefits, who bears the costs, and what forms of human and ecological well-being the system sustains.”