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"To discover to the world something which deeply concerns it, and of which it was previously ignorant; to prove to it that it had been mistaken on some vital point of temporal or spiritual interest, is as important a service as a human being can render to his fellow creatures..." John Stuart Mill, "On Liberty"

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Tuesday, November 30, 2021

Has the Death of Faith Made Us More Tribal?

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I n The Universe Is on Our Side: Restoring Faith in American Public Life Bruce Ledewitz argues that there has been a breakdown in Americ...

Friday, January 8, 2021

Time for America to create a New Origin Story

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If you follow business, you know that part of the lure of every company is its founding story or myth. How the founders came together, over...

Thursday, February 13, 2020

Nicholas Kristoff & Sheryl WuDunn: Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope

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Back in 1962, sociologist and political activist Michael Harrington published a book entitled The Other America. In it, he argued that a fu...

Thursday, October 18, 2018

Is America Now A Fascist Country?

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The word fascism gets thrown around a lot in the context of Donald Trump. As if he somehow were its progenitor. But the fact is Trump is m...

Monday, October 2, 2017

Is Trump Mentally Ill, or is America?

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Donald Trump may very well be the worst and most unprepared President that this nation has ever had. His racism, misogyny, and ignorance are...

Wednesday, September 14, 2016

Strangers in Their Own Land

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The very fact that an unqualified, demagogic, racist could be close to the Presidency tells us less about the candidates and more about the ...

Monday, March 30, 2015

The Myth of America as a "Christian Nation"

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It was Churchill who reminded us that history is written by the victors. Well this is as true of religious history as it is of military, po...

Friday, June 14, 2013

An Inner History of the New America

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Packer deconstructs the past thirty years of "progress" in America and in so doing brilliantly gives narrative drive to the chang...

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Jeff Schechtman: Napa, California, United States; I grew up during the Kennedy Presidency. It was a time when the best and the brightest sat center stage in the nation's psyche. I've always remembered the story, that at an arts gala at the White House, Kennedy looked around the room and proclaimed it "the greatest gathering of talent since Thomas Jefferson dined alone." Without the benefit of such trappings, I've had the opportunity, for the past nineteen years, to have a seat at an international banquet of ideas and history. My radio program provided me a unique opportunity to "travel" around the world and speak to thousands of the most imaginative thinkers and leaders in the arenas of politics, religion, journalism, business, popular culture, academics, science, economics, history, and medicine. During these years, I have taken many people with me on this journey. It has been a momentous time. The trauma of politics, the onslaught of technology, the insights of science, and the changes in the human condition make this a period almost unequaled in history. I'm excited that technology has now made it possible for me to take more of you along with me on this journey.

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