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Why Is It So Hard For Us To Get Along?
Americans have always be divided by race and background, but today we’re just as likely to be divided by our politics. Evolution, according to social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, has wired us to divide...
View ArticleRace Is Easy. Ideology Is Hard.
The Third Annual Zócalo Public Square Book Prize was made possible by the generous support of Southern California Gas Company. “It’s a hell of a challenge to create a cohesive community that has...
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Why Veterans Hurt (It’s Not What You Think)
When I joined the Army as a 17-year-old, I expected to face many challenges and hardships as an individual—whether that meant getting yelled at or shot at or made to jump out of airplanes. What I...
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We Shouldn’t Rely on Politicians to Memorialize Our Fallen Soldiers
Five U.S. infantry soldiers died on June 21, 2007, when their 30-ton Bradley tracked vehicle hit a deep-buried bomb in Adhamiyah, Iraq. I was embedded as a reporter with their unit when they died, and...
View ArticleAnnouncing the Zócalo 2022 Book Prize Shortlist
What is racism costing all of us? How are communities across America battling the opioid crisis? Who are the people drilling in the Bakken oil fields of North Dakota? And just how essential was...
View ArticleAnnouncing the 2023 Zócalo Book Prize Shortlist
The books shortlisted for the 2023 Zócalo Book Prize address five of the most urgent issues of our current moment: racial inequality, economic inequality, the struggle for human connection, political...
View ArticleThe 2024 Zócalo Book Prize Honors Nonfiction on Connectedness and Social...
Zócalo Public Square’s annual book prize honors the U.S.-published nonfiction book that best enhances our understanding of community and the forces that strengthen or undermine human connectedness and...
View ArticleAnnouncing the 2024 Zócalo Book Prize Shortlist
What do incremental change, forgiveness, parking, guns, and race have in common? They are all forces that strengthen and/or undermine human connectedness, social cohesion, and community—and the...
View ArticleOur Favorite Public Programs of 2023
It’s Zócalo’s 20th birthday, and we hit the two decade milestone running—we hosted 21 events in 2023 to fulfill our mission of connecting people to ideas and to each other. At our homebase at the ASU...
View ArticleThe 2024 Zócalo Book Prize Winner Is Coming Soon
The 2024 election season has barely begun and you already might be torn: tired of headlines about political polarization’s threat to democracy in America and abroad, but also feeling like it would be...
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