Slowing Down After Newtown
If you’ve read this blog for any length of time…well, first of all, thank you. I am grateful that you’re willing to hang in and explore dialogue with me. Second, you know that I periodically [...]
Who Gets to Come to the Dialogue?
A while back, an old friend upbraided me for imagining a dialogue on immigration. As she saw it, I was ruminating on an issue for which, in her words, I “had no dog in this [...]
Dialogue in Private, the Non-WikiLeaks Way
The news from WikiLeaks has me thinking about the value of privacy—and how it can make or break certain dialogues. Here’s what I mean. Dialogue, almost by definition, requires a certain amount of mess. As [...]