Perhaps the question for our divided society is not simply how to increase prosperity, but how to rebuild a culture of attention.
The cultivation of attention may be among the most important forms of civic and personal renewal available to us.
The courage of nonconformists is the beating heart of progress.
Our stories define who belongs, who threatens, and whose suffering matters. Control the stories and you control how the laws are executed.
Solidarity does not require sameness. It requires the far more fruitful work of learning how to live with difference.
American culture and politics often invoke freedom as a kind of insulation that protects us to pursue our individual ends untouched by the needs or claims of others.
The works of political philosopher Hannah Arendt and artist Francisco Goya frame a moral imperative for maintaining a just society.
