I was published in the July 2006 issue of Liberty Magazine as part of a feature titled “The Books of Summer.”

In my contribution, I recommend Andrew Cohen’s Living Enlightenment and Ken Wilber’s Boomeritis. Both helped me understand how our worldviews can imprison us, why people operating at different levels of intellectual and moral development often fail to understand one another, and how the desire for freedom can coexist with a desire to control others.

I also recount a discussion with a group of wealthy professionals in Vancouver who blamed multinational companies for poverty in the developing world. I argued instead that poor countries largely create their own poverty through the beliefs, corruption, and conflicts embedded in their cultures—and that companies such as Nike and Adidas can, from this perspective, be agents of progress.

My contribution appears on page 22 of the print issue.

Read my contribution to “The Books of Summer” in the July 2006 issue of Liberty Magazine (PDF) →