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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.) There are many flaws in the human systems we have created. Those flaws act as indicators of when we need to diverge from normality and be intentional about what kind of change we need. Although […]

  (This post is the first of a set on Fareed Zakaria’s Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World.  Click to learn more about the segment and the series, From the Field.) As I worked with colleagues to select books for the capstone this past fall, it seemed fitting that we should include an analysis related to our global […]

  (This post offers the a second student analysis of Twilight of Democracy. Click to learn more about the segment and the series, From the Field.) Historian Anne Applebaum takes her readers to a society on the brink in her latest work Twilight of Democracy. Society, according to Applebaum, is on the brink of becoming more authoritarian and straying from […]