In late 2020, a collection of leading political scientists wrote brief in Science on what they characterized as the “fierce urgency” fighting growing sectarianism United States (Finkel et al., p. 536). Among their recommendations for reforming our increasingly toxic and combative culture, authors called promoting intellectual humility: by developing commitment to nuance an awareness own cogniti...

Debates over reconciliation, atonement, forgiveness, and forgetting involve political personal elements, with substantial investments commitments. I contrast two perspectives: one stresses unconditional forgiveness independent of atonement; the other reflects on importance moral responsibility for formation person. Being held accountable, Ricoeur, matters development self. For Derrida, is a def...

The growing interest in public sociologies marks an increasing gap between the ethos of sociologists and social, political, and economic tendencies in the wider society. Public sociology aims to enrich public debate about moral and political issues by infusing them with sociological theory and research. It has to be distinguished from policy, professional, and critical sociologies. Together the...