Can America’s civic crisis be fixed? For most of US history, the tensions between an abstract commitment to justice and flourishing and a political reality that so often fell far short were held within a shared sense of unity and solidarity around the ideals of the American experiment. Why has this now unraveled, creating the civic conflict, disorientation and exhaustion we see today?

James Davison Hunter, author of the new book Democracy and Solidarity: On the Cultural Roots of America’s Political Crisis, will help us understand this story. Offering a response, and thoughts on how to recover what we’ve lost, will be author and columnist David Brooks.

Please register now for this Evening Conversation in Washington DC on Monday evening, September 30 from 6:30-8:30 pm at the National Press Club. The evening will begin with drinks and appetizers, followed by remarks and discussion and a time for audience questions.

With thanks to our sponsors:

An Anonymous Donor
Paul Klaassen
Gregg and Julie Petersmeyer
Peter and Amy Julia Becker
Lindsay Hutter

 

James Davison Hunter is LaBrosse-Levinson Distinguished Professor of Religion, Culture and Social Theory at the University of Virginia, and Executive Director of the Institute for the Advanced Study of Culture. His many influential books include Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America (1991), which brought the concept of culture wars to wide public understanding, and To Change the World (2010), which articulated a vision of “faithful presence within” cultural institutions as a hopeful model of Christian civic engagement. 

David Brooks is one of the nation’s leading writers and commentators. He is an op-ed columnist for The New York Times, a writer for The Atlantic, and appears regularly on PBS Newshour. His most recent book was the #1 bestseller How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen. His other books include The Second Mountain, The Road to Character, The Social Animal, Bobos in Paradise, and On Paradise Drive.

 

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$15 Trinity Forum Society members / $25 non-member

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Democracy and Solidarity: An Evening Conversation with James Davison Hunter and David Brooks

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