ROOT QUARTERLY VOL. 2 // ISSUE 2 // FIGHT / FLIGHT / TEND & BEFRIEND

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INTERVIEW // JOHN WOOD, JR., AND PATRIOTIC EMPATHY

What is political empathy and how do we find each other again? A 2020 interview with John Wood, Jr., National Ambassador of the grassroots political depolarization organization Braver Angels.

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OPENING SALVO // Eyes in the Sky, and on the Prize
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DESTINATION // Unity2020: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Democracy
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CONSTELLATIONS // Meet Me at ‘The Car’: A Philadelphia fooderie as American as apple (walnut) pie
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INTERVIEW // Can America Muster Its Braver Angels? An interview with John Wood Jr.
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CULTURE FILES // Officer of the Peace: An Olympic fencer turned police officer makes a plea for understanding
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POETRY // Liberty in a Folding Chair: On ‘The New Colossus,’ by Emma Lazarus, and ‘After a Greek Proverb,’ by A.E. Stallings
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PROFILE // Mental States: For painter Janos Korodi, home—and freedom—are in the mind
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REVIEW // ‘Tracing Origins’ Exhibit at Rowan University
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FICTION // Gus and Lizzy: Chapter One, Part Two