Alex Caring-Lobel

Alex Caring-Lobel is Tricycle’s former associate editor.

The Self in Self-Help Literature

In New York Magazine‘s new self-help issue, journalist Kathryn Schulz examines how we can improve ourselves and why it’s so damn hard. You might know you shouldn’t watch the next episode of that serial television show…

By Alex Caring-Lobel

Jan 16, 2013

Spiritual Esperanto

A Response to "The Dalai Lama as a Brand"

By Alex Caring-Lobel

Jan 15, 2013

Compassionate Gift Giving Ideas: Rolling Jubilee

One way to give compassionately and intelligently this holiday season is to widen the net of those who receive the benefit of your generosity. Every Tuesday here on Tricycle‘s Buddhist Holiday Survival Guide, we’ll be posting about…

By Alex Caring-Lobel

Dec 11, 2012

Neuroscience Fiction in the New Yorker

Since Alissa Quart’s “neuro-critical” Times op-ed, which we covered on the blog last week, The New Yorker has followed suit. On The New Yorker’s News Desk blog, Gary Marcus reports on the recent history of the…

By Alex Caring-Lobel

Dec 03, 2012

“Neuroscience: Under Attack” in the New York Times

If you get the Sunday Times you probably saw Alissa Quart’s clever op-ed on the backlash against the perfunctory extrapolations and sweeping claims made by popular neuroscience. The danger of false positives in neuroimaging has been…

By Alex Caring-Lobel

Nov 29, 2012

Real Buddha / Virtual Buddha

A review of "Echoes of the Past: The Buddhist Cave Temples of Xiangtangshan"

By Alex Caring-Lobel

Nov 19, 2012

Buddha Buzz: Buddhist News from Around the World, Week of October 22

Happy Halloween! Since it’s almost time for the year’s only holiday that encourages you to pretend to be someone else, it’s the perfect opportunity to let you know that if you live in Thailand, your local…

By Alex Caring-Lobel

Oct 26, 2012

The Rise of the “Nones”

Why are so many Americans religiously unaffiliated?

By Alex Caring-Lobel

Oct 15, 2012

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Alex Caring-Lobel

The Self in Self-Help Literature

Spiritual Esperanto

Compassionate Gift Giving Ideas: Rolling Jubilee

Neuroscience Fiction in the New Yorker

“Neuroscience: Under Attack” in the New York Times

Real Buddha / Virtual Buddha

Buddha Buzz: Buddhist News from Around the World, Week of October 22

The Rise of the “Nones”

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