Socrates Cafe podcast up and running
Though off to a bit of a sputtering start due to our fearless founder’s nearly nonstop travels, we do now have a Socrates Cafe podcast, and posted our third one today. Give a listen and let us know what you think. This is one more way to reach out and Socratize with someone — unlike our […]
Figuring out who you are
Last year, I visited a small insular college in the West to hold a bunch of Socrates Cafes and give a more formal presentation about my work these last twenty years gallivanting around the globe holding philosophical exchanges. Kailey, the student who introduced me to the four hundred or so folks in attendance at the state-of-the-art […]
Who’s responsible?
What we adults can learn from kids about taking responsibility. A Socrates Cafe between Chris Phillips, founder of Socrates Cafe, and his oldest daughter Cali
The person from whom I learn the most each and every day
Late late at night, long after holding with me earlier that day our first ever Socrates Cafe Podcast, and hours after putting the kids to bed (Ceci and the girls are on a trip right now), and after doing a mountain of other tasks, in the wee hours my life partner Ceci still somehow found […]
Another dream realized – our inaugural Socrates Cafe Podcast
Long thought-about, our first Socrates Cafe Podcast has now officially hatched. And how appropriate that my beautiful lifemate Ceci is the first to take part in a give and take on the podcast — unsurprisingly, on the question “What is love?” , the same question we explored nearly 20 years ago, when she was the […]
Down with name-calling
The latest Socratic gadly post on my Childing.org blog: http://childing.org/ageless-age-insults/
Bored to Tears blog on Childing.org
If you’ve had a chance to check out my fairly frequent blogs on the Childing site, you’ll see that I’m taking on sometimes the role of the Socratic gadfly, constructively and gently challenging the commonsense ‘wisdom’ of today. I do so in my blog, Bored to Tears, posted this morning on the recommendations by many […]
Plagiarism Schmlagiarism?
(This blog is one that is mostly connected to our Constitution Cafe and Declaration Project activities and writing.) I (Christopher Phillips) find myself very sad over all the attempts to humiliate Melania (and now the Donald’s son, Donald Jr.), over what is widelyclaimed to be blatant plagiarism. Let’s focus on Melania’s putative act of plagiarism, since […]
The Pursuit of Public Happiness – a right that children and youth deserve (and understand better than us adults)
Interested in your thoughts on my latest childing blog http://childing.org/childing-and-happiness/
Why our initiatives have such staying power – and why we have no grant funding
I was in the Twin Cities recently on book tour, and was invited by a very well-funded nonprofit that specializes in a captivating approach to spirituality and existential matters — including a wildly popular public radio program — to meet with several staffers. Anyway, I thought that maybe, just maybe, they realized that though I approach such matters from […]