Why I started Socrates Cafe — and why I’ll never finish
It’s going on 20 years since I first began Socrates Cafe. 20 years. And the first group I started, in Montclair, NJ, still meets weekly after all these years. My grandiose plan had been to have just one Socrates Cafe. But it resonated with people far and wide, not just in the U.S., but abroad, […]
on democratic evolution and revolution and socratizing
I was thinking today about how many people across the political spectrum tell me in my sojourns that think our open society is closing up more and more, to the point that they not only consider it in deep decline, but only a matter of time before some sort of cataclysmic upheaval occurs. They point […]