It seems there are more and more topics we shy away from out of fear of offending, being shouted down, or getting “canceled.” We in the philanthropy sector can either accept this as a new reality, or we can remember that our voices have value. We can and we should be able to talk about just about anything—to explore our own thinking and the thinking of others, to understand ideas that various people hold and why they hold them, to discover what we will commit to standing up for, and to understand why we hate the evil ideas we do. Can We Talk About It? centers around these topics. Each week,...
As protests raged across the country in 2020 following the killing of George Floyd, radicals clad in black clothes and face masks emerged on the scene to stoke the chaos and incite violence; foot soldiers for a shadowy network known as Antifa. While its roots stretch back to World War II Nazi...
Published 11/02/21
The raging debate over racism and social justice is highly complex and there are no easy answers, “but if we’re not permitted to have a robust conversation about them, we will not fashion good social policy,” said David Bernstein, founder of the Jewish Institute for Liberal Values, on the most...
Published 10/26/21