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On darkness and light on this day
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” — Martin Luther King, Jr. (Photo credit.)
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The Flying Pig Society: The art and science behind a Village Square program
Our panelists for Created Equal and Breathing Free on January 12, 2016 The Model Almost a decade into our work at the Village Square, we’ve made a decision to become more intentional about sharing the...
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Community takes a spin through ‘civic speed dating’
Amanda Claire Curcio, writes in Tallahassee Democrat: Come here often? And with the most cliché of all pickup lines, the 2016 “Speed Date Your Local Leaders” began. Local leaders went from table to...
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Race: An issue too wide to get our arms around
Byron Dobson, writing in the Tallahassee Democrat: About an hour after attending an encouraging forum Thursday night on race relations, I skimmed through Facebook and was struck by reports of...
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Happy Birthday Mr. Jefferson: A good excuse to re-run a great editorial
The Village Square in Tallahassee hosted humanities scholar Clay Jenkinson on October 15th for a live audience taping of the nationally syndicated show The Thomas Jefferson Hour. To learn more about...
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Liz Joyner: To honor their sacrifice
As we continue to build our new Village Square community both in our hometowns and nationally, Memorial Day weekend, I think, is the right time to talk about the history of the “Threads of A Nation”...
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Anthony Stahelski: A Graphical Analysis of Contradictions in a Democracy
Introduction Many Americans complain about the ‘messiness’ of democracy, by which they mean either the partisan negativity of the electoral process, or the seeming inability of our current political...
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Their Normandy Beach, Our Higgins Boats
On this day seventy-two years ago, young Americans were fighting and dying on the shores of Normandy France. The soldiers made their way onto the beach that June 6th in Higgins boats, unique...
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A Founding Tale: “Let Friendship Redeem the Republic”
“…You and I ought not to die until we have explained ourselves to each other.” So began the late-life correspondence between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, the founding fathers described in the HBO...
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