Author Julia Galef’s book Scout Mindset is both an exploration of how our minds work, and a call to action: be scouts, not soldiers. If many more of us seek to understand rather than merely “win” our world may become a more beautiful place.

Christy Vines left a career in national security to work in the bridge building space. Does a successful American experiment depend on empathy?

Everyone thinks that they're on the moral high ground. But what if, from that perch, instead of using it to our advantage in a fight, we simply seek what’s out there? How do organizations such a Heterodox Academy help us to disagree better?

In reflecting on the war in Ukraine, a call for Americans to come together and take the wheel of their own country. Politics isn’t religion, but it’s become like a religion for many. How do we ditch dogma and come together?

Pennsylvania was founded as a colony that gave a wide berth to religious practice of all kinds. How should modern Americans be thinking about tolerance?