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We’re making our way through a time of extreme disruption, led by rapid transformation in technology, especially in how we communicate information. According to our special guest Renée DiResta, the w…

We’re wondering if the secret to a healthy America is to… wait for it… put “America Fourth!” Perhaps too much of our lives are now wrapped up in this life or death, us v. them struggle for us to be h…

Introducing the newest thing in higher (and we really mean higher — like look UP) education: The Flying Pig Academy. A dream of The Village Square (with support from Florida Humanities) for many year…

Introducing the newest thing in higher (and we really mean higher — like look UP) education: The Flying Pig Academy. A dream of The Village Square (with support from Florida Humanities) for many year…

Why does it feel like those on the “other side” are not just different but dangerous?

According to our special guest UNC psychologist Kurt Gray in his new book OUTRAGED: Why We Fight About Morality a…

We have become a most tediously offended people. We’re not talking about the big stuff — it’s the “little” things we wonder about.

“Sticks and stones may break my bones” and “water off a duck’s back”…

Introducing the newest thing in higher (and we really mean higher — like look UP) education: The Flying Pig Academy. A dream of The Village Square (with support from Florida Humanities) for many year…

We claim to be a nation founded on an idea. But, especially in these times of civic rupture, are we even all talking about the same idea?

Contributing Washington Post opinion writer Dr. Ted Johnson j…

As we contemplated who we might invite for this post-election UNUM gathering, we were (temporarily) flummoxed. A week after the election would we be in need of an expert in election law, a therapist …

America’s young adults are telling us they’re not OK — in ways large and small. It’s high time to take a good, close listen and have a frank conversation about the spiking anxiety & depression among …

What, exactly, is our problem?

Author Tim Urban, known for his extended riff on procrastination in his endlessly wise, sidesplittingly funny, stick-figure illustrated Wait But Why blog, emerged from …

As we barrel toward America’s 250th, one could argue that if we crack up before we get there (some bad days we’d take even odds), it’ll have something to do with the complexity of being in charge of …

Friends since middle school, Berny Jacques and Geston Pierre are both children of Haitian political refugees who fled political instability that put their families at risk – with Geston’s parents arr…

Drawing on decades of experience addressing volatile disagreements surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Resetting the Table works to transform toxic polarization and destructive political co…

In a culturally, religiously and racially diverse society like ours — with a single public school system designed to educate America’s children — maybe we shouldn’t be surprised that the culture wars…

We were honored to hang out with our intellectual hero, Dr. Jonathan Haidt, a few weeks before the release of his recent book The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an…

Find the program online here: https://tlh.villagesquare.us/event/soul-of-civility/

While our special guest Alexandra O. Hudson, author of “The Soul of Civility: Timeless Principles to Heal Society an…

Find the full program online here — and meet The God Squad: https://tlh.villagesquare.us/event/canceled/. 

We’re living in a time when a bad choice of words (much less a deeply held countercultural o…

We wanted you wonderful SquareCast listeners to know that we didn't plan for this episode to drop on Leap Day and we didn't plan on it being (we kid you not) Episode 100. But both things just happene…