Goodbye for now

I’m no longer actively working on the Standpoint venture. Sincere thanks to the many friends who cheered me on and worked side-by-side with me on this journey. And if I don’t know you, feel free to get in touch with me on LinkedIn.

The need for better ways to learn about contentious topics lives on. Fortunately, there are some good people tackling the problem. Here are a few of my favorite resources:

• What Everyone Needs to Know - a book series and online resources from Oxford University Press covering over 100 complex and controversial topics with a high level of rigor while still being accessible.

• Intelligence Squared - regular Oxford-style debates on current controversial topics, they air on NPR in addition to their own channels

• The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion - an insightful book that helped me build empathy for the common humanity across polarized divides.

• The Flip Side - concise daily news summaries integrating Left and Right perspectives

• Ground News - news aggregator that rates sources by bias, issues Blindspot Reports describing what is not covered by media on one side or the other.

• r/changemyview -  A place to post an opinion you accept may be imperfect, in an effort to understand other perspectives on the issue.

• Allsides.com - Shows left, right, and center views side by side on most stories. They co-hosted an event with Living Room Conversations to connect people around the country (world?) with different perspectives in small group video calls. 

• Astartingpoint.com - great conversations between congresspeople on either side of the aisle and either side of an issue. Chris Evans, actor in Captain America.

• Braver Angles - a citizens' organization uniting red and blue Americans in a working alliance to depolarize America.

• The Munk Debates - a semi-annual series of debates on major policy issues