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Bettering the world one attitude at a time. We did not create the hate, but together, we can 𝘿𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙃𝙖𝙩𝙚! In a world filled with divisiveness, and dominated by F.O.G. (Fear, Outrage & Grievance), it's time we find a better way to engage. That all starts with each of us as individuals. We cannot control all that we encounter within our day to day lives, or the environment in which we live, but we certainly have the ability and responsibility to control how we react to it. For me, it starts with gratitude and personal accountability. Take a listen and see if there is something here to help you in taking your part in turning down the hate. Welcome to the 𝘿𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙃𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙋𝙤𝙙𝙘𝙖𝙨𝙩...

Recent Episodes

Leaving Groupthink: A Former Progressive Operative on Learning to Think for Herself – DTH Episode 341 with Sabrina Joy Stevens

Send Wilk a text with your feedback! (incoming msgs only - I can't reply) Sabrina Joy Stevens didn’t study groupthink from the outside. She spent two decades inside it. Starting as a college activist in the early 2000s and later working as a progressive political operative in Washington, she absorbed an oppressor-versus-victim framework that, as she puts it, became the explanation for nearly every problem in the world. Over time, small doubts piled up: a hometown that worked without any of i...

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Nothing Is Waste: Turning Tension Into Common Ground – DTH Episode 340 with Derek Richard Thomas and Alizabeth Thomas

Send Wilk a text with your feedback! (incoming msgs only - I can't reply) Derek Richard Thomas spent ten years touring in a rock band, looking out the van window at farm fields tilled flat and left bare. He had studied horticulture before music, and he knew what that does to soil. For a decade, the same sketch kept showing up in his notebooks: a stoneware pot, half-buried, with holes at the bottom so worms can carry food scraps out into the ground as fertilizer. Alizabeth Thomas spent about ...

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Why I Won't Tell My Students Who I'm Voting For – DTH Episode 339 with April Chatham-Carpenter

Send Wilk a text with your feedback! (incoming msgs only - I can't reply) This episode opens a new Derate the Hate series built around the Braver Angels Civic Scholars Council, a cross-partisan group of scholars and practitioners writing about what courageous citizenship looks like in practice. The series came out of a suggestion from Harry Boyte, and it sits close to home for Wilk, who works at Braver Angels and helped shape the organization's courageous citizenship direction. First up is A...

40 MIN

You Can’t Name Injustice Without Knowing What Justice Is – DTH Episode 338 with John Adams

Send Wilk a text with your feedback! (incoming msgs only - I can't reply) Most of us talk about injustice all the time. Far fewer of us stop to ask what justice actually is. John Adams has spent years with that question, first reading the great books in hotel rooms between deals, then translating them into games and puzzles as a youth pastor, and now in his novel, The Third Phase. The book grew out of a conversation with his daughters on their annual trip to New York. They were frustrated wi...

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Friendship Across the Political Divide: Lessons From William F. Buckley Jr. – DTH Episode 337 with Josh Cohen

Send Wilk a text with your feedback! (incoming msgs only - I can't reply) William F. Buckley Jr. had strong opinions and never apologized for them. He also spent forty years as close friends with liberal economist John Kenneth Galbraith, and decades more as a friend of Ira Glasser, longtime head of the ACLU. When a fellow conservative publicly complained that Buckley had too many liberal friends, Buckley’s reply was that he didn’t spend his time with them discussing politics. Josh Cohen’s bo...

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