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Isabel V. Sawhill • Social Capital: Why We Need It and How We Can Create More of It
Times of transformation require ever greater scrutiny of what kind of government is relevant to communities so essentially redefining themselves.
Seth Goldenberg • Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures
In forming opinions and casting votes, people are motivated much less by political ideology than by group identity.45 Opinions emerge from affiliation, not vice versa. People may like to believe that their political views reflect a careful, reasoned analysis of the issues, but usually they’re by-products of tribal allegiance. They’re rooted in emot
... See moreNicholas Carr • Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart
Under Trump, the Republican Party has gone irreversibly populist. It has traded away a sizable share of its educated, higher-income, and mainly suburban base in return for non-college-educated, working-class voters, mainly outside the big metro areas, who had earlier voted for Democrats like Obama and Clinton.
Neil Howe • The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us about How and When This Crisis Will End
sociologist Erik Olin Wright understood participatory associations as “real utopias” that contribute to a social change through “interstitial transformation.”
Nathan Schneider • Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life
People readily commit themselves to things they believe will further their interests.
Peter Block • Flawless Consulting: A Guide to Getting Your Expertise Used
When that happens, it causes communities to fragment, and we retreat into the little clusters of people we really trust.