Resources
Below are some links for people doing great work building and reshaping our shared landscape. Some are doing pluralism work, others are doing civil discourse work, others are just doing cool things in their own communities.
This list could not possibly be exhaustive and I have no affiliation or agreement with any of these organizations other than my fellowship at the Mercatus Center’s Program on Pluralism. I can’t guarantee all these links will work, but I try to keep this updated as new groups come in and as I hear about groups that are no longer in operation.
Please send me updates and additional suggestions!
Very comprehensive list
Practical toolkits for everyday life
For individuals and everyone else
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (especially their new report)
Starts with Us (Citizen Solutions project)
The Village Square (a FL based group that’s an amazing model for other local communities)
For college students
For journalists and authors
Root Quarterly (a great model for pluralistic local journalism)
For public officials (including aspiring ones)
For university faculty, staff and leadership
College Presidents for Civic Preparedness and their helpful Resource Hub
For researchers:
Fantastic researchers to follow
Organizations funding depolarization and civil discourse work
A somewhat random collection of books and thinkers who have influenced my thinking:
Elinor Ostrom’s work on common pool resources
David Sloan Wilson’s work on multilevel selection
Edmund Burke on the French Revolution
Adam Smith on everything
Amanda Ripley’s High Conflict
Aurelian Craiutu’s Why Not Moderation
Kevin Dutton’s Black and White Thinking
Hyrum Lewis and Vernon Lewis’s The Myth of Left and Right
Mónica Guzmán’s I Never Thought of It That Way