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Local Patriotism, featuring award-winning author Stephen Kiernan

The forces that divide us are big, strong, viral, international in scope and have seemingly infected every system of our body politic. It’s [...]

Let Friendship Redeem the Republic: God Squad Edition

Let Friendship Redeem the Republic: God Squad Edition. In our year-long celebration of the superpower of healthy friendships across differences, you’ll meet God [...]

God Squad: Political Football, Inc.

Are you “us” or are you “them”? These days every religious, nonprofit and for-profit has to state their opinion on every single political [...]

God Squad: Love Thy Neighbor. No Exceptions?

Love Thy Neighbor. No Exceptions? Does the admonition to love one’s neighbor really come without exceptions? Must churches welcome white nationalists? Gay couples? [...]

Daryl Davis: Hate, Undone

When Daryl Davis was ten, he didn’t understand hate yet. But then he was the only black scout in a parade to honor [...]

Chris Stirewalt: Broken News

Our very special guest, a former Fox News political editor, gives us an inside view of the rage-driven political environment we’ve found ourselves [...]

Created Equal: Black Women & the Fight for Equality

The 8th annual Created Equal program offers us an opportunity to really walk a mile in someone’s shoes. Offered in partnership with Leon [...]

Holy Misconceptions, Batman!

Holy Misconceptions, Batman! Isn’t Hanukkah the most important holiday to Jews? Don’t Catholics object to sex unless reproduction is the goal? Don’t all [...]

Chloe Valdary: “The Theory of Enchantment”

After spending a year as a Bartley fellow at the Wall Street Journal, Chloé Valdary developed The Theory of Enchantment, an innovative framework [...]

Hedrick Smith: Who Stole the American Dream?

Facilitated by Miami Herald Tallahassee Bureau Chief Mary Ellen Klas, our special guest Hedrick Smith, Pulitzer Prize-winning former New York Times reporter and [...]

Let Friendship Redeem the Republic

It’s a sure sign of the times when any across-the-aisle friends that still exist out there in the wild tend to keep their [...]

Monica Guzman: “I Never Thought of it That Way.”

Ready to fight back against the confusion, heartbreak, and madness of our dangerously divided times? Find the answers you need by talking with [...]

Souls to the Polls?

It’s an election year. Should churches have political candidates speak at Sunday services? Should clergy tell congregants how to vote? Should congregations organize [...]

Bridge Building + Bipartisanship

Bridge building?! (We’re not talking about the Golden Gate, people.) An industry that was recently unknown and almost nonexistent has exploded in recent [...]

God Squad | Wanted: A few civic heroes

Airdate: October 6 2022 In celebration of The Village Square’s determination this year to celebrate what’s working and worth emulating (in a world [...]

Dr. Robb Willer, “How to Have Better Political Conversations”

Airdate: September 22 2022 Dr. Robb Willer of the Polarization and Social Change Lab at Stanford University has been working on understanding the [...]

Created Equal Presents: Neil Phillips “Race to Truth”

Airdate: September 8 2022 “One day, here in America,” said Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, “I hope that we will see this and [...]

7 Deadly Sins: The Decline of Moral Community and the Rise of Public Corruption

Airdate: August 2022 There is perhaps nowhere in our civic debate where the conversation has grown so calcified as the one about morality. [...]

“Unum: Democracy Reignited” – Dr. Justin Gest: Majority Minority

Airdate: June 2022 Until now, most of our knowledge about responses to demographic change has been based on studies of individual people’s reactions, [...]

What 100 Coffees can teach us about being human

Airdate: May 2022 The Workmans, a husband-wife creative team in Tallahassee, help individuals, businesses, and organizations tell their story. Alex Workman has always [...]

Intellectual Humility in a Polarized World

Airdate: May 2022 At a time when complex technology of all sorts is exploding, and voluminous information about the world is at our [...]

Theodore Johnson: When the Stars Begin to Fall

Airdate: April 2022 Brennan Center for Justice’s Dr. Theodore R. Johnson, author of “When the Stars Begin to Fall: Overcoming Racism and Renewing [...]

Lonely and Extreme: A conversation about how to address extremism

Airdate: April 2022 Given the dangerous rise of political extremism in America, it’s well past time we stopped wagging our fingers and do [...]

Arthur Brooks: And the Pursuit of Happiness

Airdate: March 2022 We’ll be joined by special guest Dr. Arthur Brooks, a one-man beacon of inspiration toward both happiness and radical decency [...]

Empathy in the Age of Schadenfreude

Airdate: March 2022 As the political landscape has devolved into a Mad Max hellscape of blame and retribution (and sometimes even worse), can [...]

A Rethink on Thomas Jefferson with humanities scholar Clay Jenkinson

It’s hard to reconcile that the author of the most central and sacred words in the American experiment-that all men are created equal-enslaved [...]

A Defense of Truth “The Constitution of Knowledge” with Jonathan Rauch

Airdate: January 2022 Online trolls and political disinformation. Cancel culture and Twitter pile-ons. We’re living in a time when truth itself is under [...]

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Exhausted with Politics?

Airdate: January 2022 A year-long project by More in Common came up with a description of most of America that a lot of [...]

Order, Chaos + Homo Sapiens: Human Nature, Now Weaponized

Airdate: November 11, 2021 One enduring reality makes every challenge of democracy more difficult: people. Nothing our founders might have imagined — not [...]

Danielle Allen: Our Declaration

Airdate: October 14, 2021 An important conversation with Dr. Danielle Allen, author of Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in [...]

American Values: An Evening with David Blankenhorn

There are few opportunities for this kind of deep-dive interview with the founder of that quickly growing national organization Braver Angels, David Blankenhorn. [...]

Amanda Ripley: High Conflict: How we get trapped and how we get out

Airdate: September 2, 2021 We’ll be joined for an intimate conversation by journalist Amanda Ripley to talk about her tour-de-force book about how [...]

Respect + Rebellion: The State of Debate on Campus

Airdate: September 16, 2021 Universities have long been experienced as a place where the ideals of free inquiry and deliberative democracy are embodied [...]

Free Speech (in the age of political correctness and bad manners)

Airdate: September 30, 2021 While charges of “hate speech” sprout like crabgrass on an un-mowed lawn and college students debate micro-aggressions, when a [...]

Dead Presidents + Living Statues: Ideals, hypocrisy + e pluribus unum

As current events batter already weakened institutions of democracy, it’s increasingly hard to navigate how we gather together under the banner of “e [...]

Created Equal and Breathing Free: The Straining Founding Ideals of Equality and Freedom

“All Men are Created Equal,” but not everyone feels they are. Have we gone too far with insuring equality or not far enough? [...]

From Victim to Victor: Jackie Robinson at 100

Airdate: July 22, 2021 On the 100th anniversary of his birth, we discussed the impact of Jackie Robinson breaking Major League Baseball’s color [...]

50 Episodes of Building Trust Across Color, Creed & Ideology

Think it’s impossible to bridge today’s divisions? We beg to differ! Join politically diverse Village Square moderators looking back on the “best of” [...]

An Evening with Thomas Jefferson

Clay Jenkinson has lectured about and portrayed Jefferson in forty-nine states over a period of fifteen years, having performed before Supreme Court justices, [...]

Created Equal | Stretching Toward Freedom

Airdate: June 24, 2021 The 6th event in the annual “Created Equal” series — offered by Leon County and The Village Square with [...]


	Bill Bishop: The Big Sort Americans have been sorting ourselves in every aspect of our lives – news we watch, books we read, churches we attend, even our neighborhoods. mp3 \| 1:10:00
	Dr. Jonathan Haidt: After Babel What if, at the pinnacle of our civilization’s technological achievement, everything just broke? mp3 \| 1:42:00
	Fragile Neighborhoods with Seth Kaplan Seth D. Kaplan, is an expert on fragile states across the world, consulting for The World Bank as well as developing country governments and NGOs. mp3 \| 1:24:00
	God Squad: Everyone is Canceled We’re living in a time when some are doing a near-professional job of elevating being offensive to an art form—almost begging to be “canceled.” mp3 \| 1:07:00
	The Soul of Civility with Alexandra Hudson Alexandra O. Hudson, author, finds the challenges to civility today dire, but she thinks they’re not new. mp3 \| 1:34:00

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