Mark Satin is a U.S. lawyer and editor of the online political periodical Radical Middle Newsletter. He graduated from the New York University School of Law in 1995, and his article "Law and Psychology: A Movement Whose Time Has Come" (Annual Survey of American Law, 1994, issue 4) was an early articulation of the now-emerging concept of "therapeutic jurisprudence." Therapeutic Jurisprudence website

He is a proponent of radical centrist politics. His most recent book, Radical Middle: The Politics We Need Now (ISBN 0813341906), won "Outstanding Book Award 2004" from the Section on Ecological and Transformational Politics of the American Political Science Association. APSA Awards website He was a green activist from 1984 to 1990, and was a primary editor, with feminist philosopher Charlene Spretnak, of the founding document of the Green Party (United States), the Ten Key Values statement (see John Rensenbrink, Against All Odds, 1999, p. 4).

His hard copy newsletter, New Options (1983-1992), well known as "Washington DC's idealistic political newsletter," received Utne Reader's first "Alternative Press Award for General Excellence: Best Publication from 10,000 to 30,000 Circulation." Some of its articles are available in book form, New Options for America: The Second American Experiment Has Begun, 1991 (ISBN 080931794X).

In the 1970s Satin was co-founder and executive director of the New World Alliance, a U.S. New Age political organization that sought to go "beyond left and right" (see Art Stein, Seeds of the Seventies, 1985, pp. 134-139). It drew on the ideas of Fritjof Capra, Willis Harman, Hazel Henderson, John Vasconcellos, and many other "transformational" thinkers, as well as ideas in Satin's book New Age Politics: Healing Self and Society, 1979, orig. 1976 (ISBN 0440557003).

In the 1960s Satin was co-founder and executive director of the Toronto Anti-Draft Programme, a major draft dodger assistance organization during the Vietnam War (see Pierre Berton, 1967: The Last Good Year, 1997, pp. 197-203, and John Hagan, Northern Passage, 2001, pp. 74-78). His book Manual for Draft-Age Immigrants to Canada, 1968 (ISBN B0006BYDLA), was an underground bestseller during that era, selling 65,000 copies by mail from Toronto and inspiring at least that many pirated, bowdlerized, and mimeographed knock-offs (see Joseph Jones, "The House of Anansi's Singular Bestseller," Canadian Notes & Queries, No. 61, 2002, pp. 19-22).

Satin serves as advisor to the Centrist Coalition, Let's Talk America, Politics of Trust Network, and other U.S. activist groups. He lives in Washington, DC, USA.

External links

• Radical Middle Newsletter website