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(This post is the next in Readings in Reconciliation.  Click to learn more about the segment and the series, From the Field.) Is there such a thing as “we” in America, and has this idea shifted with time? Putnam attempts to answer this by charting out the curve “we” has taken over the course of the last […]

(This post is the next in Readings in Reconciliation.  Click to learn more about the segment and the series, From the Field.) Robert Putnam, of the Bowling Alone fame brings his wisdom once again to the current discussion on the polarized political climate that the United States finds itself. Putnam looks to analyze political, economic, social, and […]

  (This post is the first of a set on Robert Putnam’s The Upswing.  Click to learn more about the segment and the series, From the Field.) Conversation in our capstone course this semester has been full thus far!  Students have asked really compelling questions and exemplified the kinds of interactions that would serve our public sphere – […]

  (What is Tocqueville Capital?  Read the welcome post to learn more!) Just over three years ago, eleven worshipers at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania lost their lives.  A man who had ties to extremist groups that, among others, held anti-Semitic views allegedly killed them.  That this incident was one of 836 […]

(This post is the next in the segment Readings in Reconciliation and focuses on Adam Grant’s Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know.  Click to learn more about the segment and the series, From the Field.) In today’s highly polarized society, it has become increasingly common to critique the “other” and simply dismiss their views as […]