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The Sun Interview

    The Sun Interview

    Made To Be Broken

    Richard Albert On The Difficulty Of Amending The U.S. Constitution

    The way Americans interact with each other now has made it clear that the Constitution was perhaps never deserving of all the praise it’s gotten.

    By Mark LevitonAugust 2022
    Made To Be Broken
    The Sun Interview

    In Vino Veritas

    Edward Slingerland On The Hidden Truths About Our Relationship With Alcohol

    What if . . . our taste for alcohol has been strengthened and preserved in our gene pool for functional reasons? Then we might look at intoxication not as a side note but as part of the story of what makes us human.

    By Derek AskeyJuly 2022
    In Vino Veritas
    The Sun Interview

    Falling Behind

    Ruth Milkman On The Growing Job Insecurity In America

    In terms of security and a sense that you can count on a certain career path in life if you do your part — that’s over for most people. You’re on your own.

    By Staci KleinmaierJune 2022
    Falling Behind
    The Sun Interview

    The Carnivore’s Dilemma

    Wyatt Williams On The Moral Conundrum Of Killing And Eating Animals

    We shouldn’t fool ourselves into thinking that because we went to Whole Foods and bought the organic product, we’re not participating in suffering and death.

    By Finn CohenMay 2022
    The Carnivore’s Dilemma
    The Sun Interview

    Sticks And Stones

    Yascha Mounk On The Erosion Of Good-Faith Discourse In America

    It’s hard to be optimistic about this country overcoming its current political challenges without some disaster happening.

    By Daniel McDermonApril 2022
    Sticks And Stones
    The Sun Interview

    Something In The Water

    Robert Bilott On Corporate Greed And Chemical Contamination

    The cows were getting sick and wasting away. They were developing tumors. Their teeth were turning black. Calves were stillborn or born with cloudy or deformed eyes.

    By Tracy FrischMarch 2022
    Something In The Water
    The Sun Interview

    Gray Matter

    Daniel J. Levitin On Why Memory Isn’t So Black And White

    Seeing and hearing are selective. We register what is needed at the moment and unconsciously ignore other input. It may seem that our eyes are like a camera and our ears are like microphones, objectively recording everything, but . . . our senses are not at all like those devices.

    By Mark LevitonFebruary 2022
    Gray Matter
    The Sun Interview

    The Desert Within

    Douglas Christie On The Power Of Silence And Contemplation

    There was a value placed on listening as closely as possible to the mysterious silence that supports existence, which is both the actual silence of the desert landscape and the silence of the self in contemplation.

    By Leath ToninoJanuary 2022
    The Desert Within
    The Sun Interview

    The Elephant In The Room

    Rick Perlstein On The Evolution Of The American Conservative Movement

    In a lot of ways the start of the Civil War at Fort Sumter in 1861 found its modern parallel on January 6, 2021.

    By Jeff WeissDecember 2021
    The Elephant In The Room
    The Sun Interview

    The Best Defense

    Paul K. Chappell On The Urgent Need For Peace Literacy

    The most dangerous weapons of war in the twenty-first century are not bullets and bombs; they are the weaponization of this rage, mistrust, alienation, and other tangles of trauma, which make all forms of violence more likely.

    By Leslee GoodmanNovember 2021
    The Best Defense

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