The Conversation
The body of work Human Flourishing is building in public. Long-form essays on the seven pillars, shorter reflections from the field, and the conversations our gatherings produce. Everything we publish, in one place.
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The Question Every Father Answers
The disagreement usually arrives at the table. A grown child comes home carrying a conviction the father doesn't share — about God, or money, or the country, or how a person ought to live — and says it out loud, and the room changes temperature before anyone has decided anything. Everyone feels it. The father feels it most, because the thing being contradicted is not just an opinion. It is something he built a life around, and it is being [...]
The Essays
The foundational arguments of Human Flourishing’s body of work. One long-form essay per pillar, building a public record of honest inquiry across difference.
The Founding Essay — The intellectual and philosophical founding of everything Human Flourishing does.
Pillar 2 Essay — What neuroscience, ancient wisdom, and the work of human flourishing asks of us
America’s 250th Celebration Essay — The Declaration’s Unfinished Promise
What a 90-Year Old Book Still Gets Right
Dale Carnegie wrote the manual on human influence in 1936. Three of his ideas still have something to teach us, and something to offer a divided world. Part 3 of 3 The previous two issues [...]
Two Things I’ve Learned the Hard Way About Respect
On the smartest person in the room — and the rarest skill in any room Part 2 of 3 In the last issue I wrote about respect as the hottest of all hot buttons — [...]
The Hottest of All Hot Buttons
Why respect decides whether a conversation opens or shuts down Part 1 of 3 Scroll through almost any comment thread on a contested topic and you can watch one of the oldest patterns in human behavior play out in [...]
Loving the Country We Have
We use three words as if they were one. Patriotism, politics, and partisanship get folded together until it's hard to tell which we mean. Someone who argues fiercely for their side calls it patriotism. Someone [...]
All Men Are Created Equal
The Declaration's Unfinished Promise Two hundred and fifty years ago, a single sentence changed the world. It is still changing it. In the summer of 1776, a thirty-three-year-old Virginia lawyer sat in a rented [...]
Memorial Day Is for the Names
Memorial Day is for the names. It is sometimes confused with Veterans Day, which honors the living. Memorial Day is for the dead: the men and women whose service ended in service. The day exists [...]
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