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Friend! I just learned something I didn’t know, which seems important for us to understand. According to social psychologist Jonathan...

Hi, friend, This is how crazy things have gotten out there: on the one hand, to call for a cease-fire in Gaza apparently means one is...

Dear Friend, Have you noticed that the media does not always maintain its commitment to academic objectivity? That we’re often subjected...

"It’s almost as if we in the room hadn't realized we’d been holding our breath – because the world has exploded and the culture war is...

FRIEND. It seems to me that our social media feeds have become, to put it bluntly, a toxic cesspool of incoherent rage. More than usual,...

Dear one. News from the Middle East is heartbreaking. (As is news from Ukraine, Sudan, the DRC, Haiti…). Who can say or write anything...

Friend. Few issues carve the ideological and religious divide more deeply than the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. How, then, to respond...

Dear Friend, While I'm on this letter writing kick, I decided just this morning to write a letter to my fellow activists, our political...

Dear Friend, In my first letter, I implied that things blew up between us when Trump was elected. The truth, however, is that we’d been...

Dear Friend: So. Roe has been overturned. As soon as the news dropped, the country erupted; in jubilation on the one hand, fear and...

Dear Friend: I know, I know - so many serious issues to cover - but I must tell you: I got a chance, this past weekend, to put my...

Dear Friend: Because I can’t think of a way to stall any longer, it’s time to write about something serious. I may as well dive in the...

Dear Friend, Before we go any further, perhaps some catching up is in order? I’m currently living in Chattanooga, TN, where I grew up,...

Dear Friend: At this point, it would seem, we agree on very little, at least within the political sphere. I can’t get to you, way over...

Dear Conservative, Right-leaning friend: We haven’t talked in so long! I don’t have any good excuse as to why, really, except that, well,...