A revolutionary scholar is in our midst who has been quietly changing the world.

Happy Sunday. Agata Popęda here. I hope you will have some time today to read a story about a revolutionary thinker who happens to live in Carmel. That’s my latest cover story that you can find in the current issue of the Weekly and online, and one I enjoyed reporting tremendously.

Riane Eisler is a scholar and futurist whose thought has been moving faster than the times. Only now her ideas—controversial in the 1980s when she published her groundbreaking The Chalice and The Blade—seem to echo with the spirit of times when we are all feminists, tired of both capitalism and socialism and the way political parties manipulate ideology. We all want a more equal society, more women in positions of power, better schools, healthier environment and less wars.

Eisler’s answer to all those issues doesn’t change; she recommends less domination and more partnership in every aspect of our private and public lives. She argues that the culture of domination that glorifies violence is acquired, not encoded in human DNA.

What’s best, Eisler is our neighbor. She has been living in the Carmel forest for decades—and from there, quietly changing the world.

More than that, Eisler is also fascinating as a person. Kind and lively, she fosters hope with every sentence. Her life reads like a novel, starting with traumatic childhood experiences and ending with a long and happy life full of professional, personal and emotional successes.

Ladies and gentlemen—Riane Eisler.