by Shellee O'Brien | Quotes, Thinking Together
Quotes to Think By: Dr. King and the Need for Creative Extremists What principles motivate our extremism? What can we make of a world on fire? That question gave shape to a recent Questions of Civic Proportions Newsletter. There was another question in the...
by Shellee O'Brien | Quotes, Thinking Together
Quotes to Think By: Tom Nichols and Our Coming Unmoored from Facts The danger in being dangerously uninformed Uninformed people elect uninformed leaders. Shaming people for their inattention or lack of information doesn’t do much to help them see the dangerous...
by Shellee O'Brien | Quotes, Thinking Together
Quotes to Think By: Timothy Snyder’s On Tyranny Understanding the politics of the everyday and the choices we make Timothy Snyder’s small book has a big mission. Each chapter of On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century delivers advice for...
by Shellee O'Brien | Quotes, Thinking Together
Quotes to Think By: Octavia Butler’s Rules for Predicting the Future History, perspective and our ability to solve new problems Hidden in a discussion about the future, an award-winning science-fiction author offered a guide for using history to guide our...
