Our young country is an experiment, and we are all founders, responsible for its direction and stewardship. What do we want the next 250 years to be?
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A young American asks: Should I have stayed in my hometown? What does it mean to be part of a community, and where do we go from here?
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Seth D. Kaplan’s book “Fragile Neighborhoods” is a must-read book for anyone who wants to understand how to repair our social fabric and build resilient communities.
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What do we owe each other? And how do we build a country where intergenerational wealth isn’t measured in gold and property, but in a society that cares for its most vulnerable? We owe an existential debt to the generations that came before us. What will we do with that inheritance?
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How is social media affecting our “locus of control,” especially for teen girls? Academic and moral theorist Jonathan Haidt rings the alarm bell about how digital natives are failing to thrive, and Editor-in-Chief Heather Shayne Blakeslee makes the case that Gen X just might save us.
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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?
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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?
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A mid-pandemic freakout about our fouled information system. Root Quarterly considers itself part of a Citizen Sensemaking Brigade, and seeks to be a trusted, nonpartisan source of information and analysis.
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by Heather Shayne Blakeslee
Be like bees, just not too much, and we might just save our species.
Read MoreWhat 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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by Walter Foley and Heather Shayne Blakeslee
Humans are already prone to mob rule and moral panics, including frenzies about witches, communists, and Satanists. Is the media’s broken business model playing with our psychology and biology by purposefully stoking outrage and profiting from call-out and cancel culture?
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by Heather Shayne Blakeslee
In this period of our country’s history, will be come together, or be torn apart? The first of our ongoing “Opening Salvo” essays from Founding Publisher and Editor Heather Shayne Blakeslee in summer of 2019.
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