Volcanoes are erupting in The Philippines, but on-fire Australia received some welcome rain. The Iran war cries have been called off and The Donald’s military powers are about to be hamstrung by the Senate. Meanwhile, his impeachment trial is starting, and we’re all on Twitter for a front-row seat.
Tag: Society
03/25/2021
Everyone Is Wrong About Participation Trophies
You’ve heard the story: Young people got “participation trophies” as kids, and it taught them to be entitled, lazy workers. But here’s what you haven’t heard: Participation trophies are 100 years old, and for most of that time, they were considered a good thing.
04/08/2021
The Call to Unite | Tim Shriver with John Wood, Jr. & April Lawson
Educator, activist, and author Tim Shriver joins the Braver Angels Podcast to talk about his new book, The Call to Unite, and the budding nationwide movement to unite America.
04/19/2019
Episode 10: Ending ageism with Ashton Applewhite
03/24/2021
America’s Public Forum: Friendship’s Meaning In Our Divided, Isolated Times
A wide-ranging conversation on the centrality of friendship—personal or civic, online or in-person, chosen or accidental—in addressing, at least, the great social crisis of our times, and perhaps even the great political questions of our age.
01/18/2021
“Rebuilding America” with Tom Friedman
Truth and trust are the cornerstones of U.S. democracy. How can the United States, and its leaders, resurrect those central ideas to ensure a viable future for the country and its people?
03/19/2021
Empathy and Our Future
While many in America are now debating accountability vs. unity, there is another concept that belongs in any conversation about how America can recover from a divisive election, devastating pandemic, and long history of racial injustice – empathy.
03/16/2021
Meritocracy is Bad
America is good at elevating "the best" people; the problem is that's a bad idea
03/16/2021
Is Progress Possible? Preventing Catastrophes
The man who led the build-out of the first-ever pandemic response plan for the White House talks Cassandra theory, a methodology that uses data to analyze and assess future threats.
02/25/2021
The Surprising Importance of To-Go Cocktails
You can learn a lot from a simple margarita… because when you take one home from a restaurant in America, you’re participating in a change that was hundreds of years in the making. It’s a surprisingly complex story that reveals our weird history with alcohol, and how the smallest shifts can lead to unexpectedly massive changes.
03/02/2021
Socially distanced, but united: Covid has brought the UK closer together – report
Society is more united than it was before the pandemic, according to research, which cautions that the UK is ‘at a crossroads’
03/01/2021
Untying the knot: how to have a ‘good’ divorce
What would change if we saw divorce as a positive transition rather than a failure?
03/01/2021