The Pause
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On Our Lives with AI
In conversation at the Wisdom & Action Forum 2026. Photo: Peter Casamento
Dear Friends,
This is a long missive about a vast subject: our lives with AI. It is the only Pause for this summer. I am in need, it seems, of shoulder surgery. Thi...
The Mystery of Consciousness
Michael Pollan in conversation with Krista on consciousness. Photo: Sarah Bidgood
From Krista:
Michael Pollan’s latest book, A World Appears, is an exploration — with scientists and journalists and technologists and spiritual teachers — o...
“The Fierce Urgency of Now”
Lucas Johnson and Michelle Alexander in conversation with Krista at Riverside Church. Photo: Annann Puttithanasorn
From Krista:
One of our two special episodes has now landed, as promised, and the second — with Michael Pollan, on the mys...
Between Tenderness and Tumult
Michael Pollan in conversation with Krista on consciousness .Photo: Sarah Bidgood
Dear Friends,
For those of us in the western hemisphere, the air is growing soft and warm. And, I’m about to travel to the other side of the planet next we...
On Love, and Judaism
From Krista:
I’m on record bemoaning across the years that “love” is the most watered-down word in the English language. I know that invoking love feels very soft for our hard realms of politics and war. Yet it is an enduring truth that lo...
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