Culture

The Better Arguments Projec teaches Americans how to have better arguments and fewer divides, and joins forces with local organizations to talk to people on all sides of polarizing issues.

Babies are more likely than older children to end up in foster care despite being more vulnerable developmentally. A new initiative is changing that, says Myra Jones-Taylor. Instead of blame, Safe Babies Court Teams helps parents become confident, stable caretakers, so babies can leave foster care and go home.

What does it mean to eat like a human? Bill Schindler, the director of the Eastern Shore Food Lab at Washington College in Maryland, challenged the audience to ditch the processed food that makes up the bulk of the typical American diet.

Will building delight into cities make them more cloying or more fun?

Ditching likes for facial scans could be the way to a kinder, if creepier, online world.

Feelings aren’t as senseless as Americans have been led to believe.

Inspiring lessons of individualism and collaboration, of art and commerce, and of old-world skills and new-world opportunities.

Billy the Kid, Jesse James, Sitting Bull, and Geronimo all made an appearance in the imaginations of Society of Fellows guests at a symposium on 19th-century America. Catherine Lutz tagged along as historians examined a re-created Western town as well as the nation’s storied past.

This event was made possible through the generosity of the following underwriters: The Segal Family Foundation  Carole & Gordon