Shaughnessy Naughton, whose concern for the future of science in the US led her into politics, will analyze the results of the recent election and highlight the value of scientists, mathematicians, and engineers serving as elected officials at all levels of government. The speaker is the founder and president of 314 Action, which works to […]
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Platform: The Way Out–How to Overcome Toxic Polarization
The partisan divide in the US has widened to a chasm. Legislators vote along party lines and rarely cross the aisle. Political polarization is personal, too—and it is making us miserable. Surveys show that Americans have become more fearful and hateful of supporters of the opposing political party and imagine that they hold much more […]
Stitching Together the American Fabric
Tribalism, the enormous wealth gap in our society, and social isolation make people more prone to demagogic appeals to scapegoating as a malignant way to spur solidarity among the alienated.Read More
Loving Our Neighbor and the World: Cosmopolitanism and the American Future
With the deepening divisions in American society, politically, socially, and economically, perhaps the time has come to envision and to advocate for another way of understanding American society and American identity. In this platform address, leader Joseph Chuman discusses such a way.Read More
Democracy, Facts, Truth and Reason
By Dr. Joseph Chuman Reason is a value that Ethical Culture prizes most highly. That reason is a good seems self-evident. Yet reason is receiving a lot of battering these days and the consequences are ominous. On the personal level, abandon reason and we descend into a surrealist, Alice-in-Wonderland realm. We need reason to order […]
Loving Our Neighbor and the World: Cosmopolitanism and the American Future
By Dr. Joseph Chuman It seems as if Donald Trump is digging his base deeper but no wider. The Democratic constituency, by contrast, has become increasingly diverse. Over 87 percent of Republicans are white, while minorities, racial and ethnic, are finding a home in the Democratic Party. Moreover, 56 percent of women identify as Democrats, […]
