Four Attributes for Civil Discourse

Four Attributes for Civil Discourse

“We live in two Americas,” opines Nicholas Kristof in a recent New York Times Op-Ed. “The one thing we all agree on: Our social fabric is torn.” Kristof goes on to suggest, “It should be possible both to believe deeply in the rightness of one’s own cause and to...

Thomas Piketty and the Big Picture Public Thinker

Thank goodness for people like Thomas Piketty. In February, respected New York Times  columnist Nicholas Kristof lamented the insularity of academia in the face of anti-intellectualism in American life. Academia’s willful isolationism behind arcane and inaccessible...