by Heather Shayne Blakeslee
Be like bees, just not too much, and we might just save our species.
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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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by Walter Foley
How did we get here, and where do we want to go? Reflections on self-reliance and sensemaking during strange times.
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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Essay by Lauren Earline Leonard
What do we do when we find out that a favorite artist has behaved badly, or even criminally? Should corporations or individuals get to decide? Lauren Earline Leonard wrestles with her current record collection as she recalls the music of her youth.
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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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