AI/PeaceTech startups, Conflicts, Politics. Editor & Contributor @CDMag. Devoted to liberty, conscience, the guardianship of pluralism (and baroque music).
Polarization & Repair
In an age when conviction performs louder than truth, The Art of Un-saying asks how we might recover conscience amid the noise. Drawing on Haidt and Solzhenitsyn, it offers six psychological practices to deprogram tribal rage and rediscover moral freedom.
Freedom
Patriotism need not be grievance or bloodline. At its best, it is love and affection for liberty, equality, and justice—an inheritance wide enough to hold a fractured people, and demanding enough to call us beyond tribe toward a shared republic of ideals.
Polarization & Repair
Tolerance may keep conflict at bay, but by itself it leaves us strangers. Free societies endure only when they move beyond the tranquility of indifference to the practice of encounter—where wary coexistence gives way to fraternity, solidarity, and a shared civic life.
Freedom
Forgiveness is no easy grace—it is the hardest freedom, wrested from pain itself. It asks the unimaginable: that hurt might yield to mercy. Yet time and again, from the crucifixion to South Africa’s rebirth, it has made the impossible possible.
Conscience
Amid ruins and censors, Rublev painted communion. Tarkovsky filmed his silence. Across centuries, both remind us: beauty does not erase suffering, but transfigures it—conscience’s last word against power.