CS Lewis on charity

Some people nowadays say that charity ought to be unnecessary and that instead of giving to the poor we ought to be producing a society in which there were no poor to give to. They may be quite right in saying that we ought to produce this kind of society. But if anyone thinks that, as a…

‘So you’ve been publicly shamed’

Quotes below are from “So you’ve been publicly shamed” by Jon Ronson. The book is insightful, funny, and entertaining throughout.

A life had been ruined. What was it for: just some social media drama? I think our natural disposition as humans is…

Does it matter if conversations with political opponents are decreasing?

I’m wondering if and how it may be possible to facilitate discussions between people and others with opposing views.

Together we make change

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

Institutions must advance to keep pace with the times

“I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions, but laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new…

Projects and organizations promoting conversations in one way or another, or stories about conversations

Update (2019/07/08): Several more including Consider Civility, Make America Dinner Again, and Center for the Study of Liberty…