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The Problem with Truth
In our desperation to makes sense of a complex world, we've damaged the concept of truth so badly we're now prepared to call it dead -- to our great detriment.
What are we talking about when we talk about gender?
Sex, gender, sexuality – conflating these concepts and their vocabularies is making it harder to create a more equitable society
Compartmentalization is a privilege
The language of environmentalism
Global warming became climate change. What needs to come next?
Outrage versus change
We need outrage, but we need it to be useful not performative.
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Knowledge versus wisdom
Access to information keeps speeding up, but how does our habit for instantaneous knowledge effect our expectations for wisdom?
Belonging, meaning, and safety
If political parties provided what conspiracy theories do, maybe our parties would be stronger and more useful to our civic life.
The guns or the violence?
Like all chicken-or-the-egg arguments, what matters most is where we go from here.
Rebuilding our public sphere was always going to be hard
And not just because the companies we rely on are corporate giants that don't want to change.
No history, no consequences
How can our media systems help (or hurt) our efforts to build accountability?
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Is the Overton Window a tool or a weapon?
If we want the ideological boundaries of society to help us build community rather than contribute to its compromise, we need to remember what they are for.
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Maladjustment to injustice
What is happening in America should make us all uncomfortable