Sublime

This goes back to our early discussion of the invention of the United States. The founders sought to balance liberty and obligation. For them it was a political question. In the sixth cycle, it will be an existential one, defining who we are as individuals. The United States will face this more deeply than other countries, because American wealth

Our social skills are currently inadequate to the pluralistic societies we are living in.

A team of researchers at Stanford University, led by an economist named Raj Chetty, used newly accessible data from the Internal Revenue Service to write a series of papers that addressed questions of opportunity in American life. One, titled “The Fading American Dream,” asked a simple question: How likely is it that an American child will be

The bottom line is that small changes in the communication structure can affect decisions.

Virtue cannot be limited to those with the means to practice it.

“healthy, loving, and supportive families are crucial to nurture compassionate, ethical persons and create sane and just societies.”

‘Community connectedness is not just about warm fuzzy tales of civic triumph,’ writes Putnam; ‘In measurable and well-documented ways … social capital makes us smarter, healthier, safer, richer, and better able to govern a just and stable democracy.’

Business strategist Peter Drucker wrote that what gets measured, gets managed.