Sarah Ruger
Sarah Ruger directs free expression initiatives for the Charles Koch Institute and Foundation. She is a passionate advocate for open inquiry, free speech rights, and engagement that respects the dignity inherent in every individual.
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Outrage culture is causing provocative issues to be pushed out of public discourse and important artworks to be literally white-washed. Teaching civil discourse at universities is key to sustaining the American experiment.
Changing people’s minds isn’t how we end polarization. Tolerance is the gateway to peaceful coexistence.
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It will take a crack team of scientists, programmers and philosophers to cure the online hate pandemic.
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Dialogue and an open mind can go a lot further than angry rhetoric.
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The year was fraught to say the least. Riots in the streets, engagement abroad in a long-fought war, and an encroaching sense that the fabric that knits us together is […]
A guide to making difficult conversations possible—and peaceful—in an increasingly polarized nation.
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