Bob Dylan and Buddhism

Bob Dylan Doesn’t Get Embarrassed

Ron Rosenbaum | Literary Hub | 28th October 2025

What went relatively unnoticed in Dylan’s many polite snubs to the Swedish Nobel Academy was an essay he gave them months later, about the literature that had influenced him. In it, he paid tribute to All Quiet on the Western Front, writing: “it’s a book where you lose your childhood, your faith in a meaningful world”. “Dylan makes the point that it’s about the failures of civilisation” (1,500 words)

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Buddhism And Deliberative Democracy

William J. Long | The Immanent Frame | 8th October 2025

Democracy in the modern world is largely a competition of votes between self-interested actors aggregated by interest groups and political parties. The Buddhist idea of sangha offers an alternative model of deliberative governance that it probably sustained for centuries. In contrast to Western liberal democracies today, sangha emphasised duties to others as much as rights for oneself (2,800 words)