The Aspen Institute

A weekly series originally oriented toward reimagining a better society post COVID-19, but now expanding to include the prospects for civil dialogue about fundamental political principles in a divided polity. In what ways was America conceived as a shining city on a hill? What are the affirmations and responsibilities of such an aspiration? How do we reconcile the desire to form a community with the insistence that each individual take responsibility for his or her life? (John Winthrop’s Model of Christian Charity.)