https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/06-20-17%20Wood%20Testimony.pdf
Zack Wood, an African-American senior at Williams College who is president of “Uncomfortable Learning” recently spoke before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary on his group’s effort “to broaden the range of dialogue” on campus. Read his testimony.
"22 people – Republicans, Libertarians, Democrats, and one Anarchist (hey that’s me!) – gathered over three days to bond, to engage in facilitated civil discourse, and to learn to see each other as humans. It worked."
Read more from last week's CtK.Campfire:
http://blog.bl00cyb.org/2017/08/cultivate-the-karass/
“Show concern, not contempt, for the wounds of those who brought him to power.” Wise words by Venezuelan journalist Andrés Miguel Rondón in this review of post-election “resistance essays” by Carlos Lozada.
http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2017/05/cass_sunstein_o.html
"Confidence, unity, and extremism:" Cass Sunstein, co-author of "Nudge" and former Obama administration official, argues that these three factors have led progressives to silence conservative voices. Part of a fascinating EconTalk podcast about his new book, "#Republic, Divided Democracy in the Age of Social Media."
According to the General Social Survey “the percentage of Americans reporting a social evening with a neighbor has plummeted.” E. J. Dionne Jr. suggests this decline in our “social architecture” is deepening political polarization.
Does the capacity for loyal antagonism increase in middle age? David Brooks traces the 40-year journey of two former Louisiana football players once divided by history and race.
https://www.npr.org/player/embed/531921221/531926323
Meet Max, a young tech executive who uses a Facebook app to escape his “social bubble” several times a week.
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/621/fear-and-loathing-in-homer-and-rockville
Why the people of Homer, Alaska, nearly came to blows over immigration (even though there aren't any immigrants there), and how one citizen tried (and failed) to base his position on evidence. An insightful episode of This American Life shows just how tricky it can be to foster productive public debates about divisive issues.
“When people can sit through the discomfort of their own reactivity and fear, that’s when the best conversations happen.” Rachel Wahl, a student at the University of Virginia, on how dialogue can overcome ideologies polarization.
“It’s not about Donald Trump, it’s about me, you’re trying to destroy me by doing that to him.” Perceptive reporting by The Guardian in Northampton County, PA, where voters switched from Obama to Trump.
