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The Problem with Truth
In our desperation to makes sense of a complex world, we've damaged the concept of truth so badly we're now prepared to call it dead -- to our great detriment.
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A View from the Road
Six weeks on the road across the country is a good way to refresh your view of all kinds of things.
Institutional versus cultural power
Our inability to distinguish, disconnect, and leverage different types of power is not just undermining discourse -- it's risking our republic.
Humanity versus Economics
What is Naomi Osaka withdrawing from The French Open really about?
"No one wants to work."
What's the relationship between health, meaning, work, and survival in America?
What are we talking about when we talk about gender?
Sex, gender, sexuality – conflating these concepts and their vocabularies is making it harder to create a more equitable society
New founders same as the old founders
What The US Constitution can teach us about reforming modern media
Compartmentalization is a privilege
The language of environmentalism
Global warming became climate change. What needs to come next?
Outrage versus change
We need outrage, but we need it to be useful not performative.
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Knowledge versus wisdom
Access to information keeps speeding up, but how does our habit for instantaneous knowledge effect our expectations for wisdom?
Belonging, meaning, and safety
If political parties provided what conspiracy theories do, maybe our parties would be stronger and more useful to our civic life.