Vamık D. Volkan, MD, shares memories of working with President Jimmy Carter as a member of the Carter Center’s International Negotiation Network, which was established to promote dialogue and resolve conflicts between warring parties within countries.

Ronald A. Lindsay argues that left-wing identity politics ideologues and Christian nationalist members of the MAGA coalition share a common antagonism toward Enlightenment values. As he demonstrates, this is a matter of grave concern for the future of Western liberal democracies.

Forrest, an adult detransitioner, shares a letter he wrote to the mother of a child with rapid-onset gender dysphoria. He reveals how her words and support have helped give him hope and allowed him to reflect more on his own challenges.

Derek Owen imagines the speech America needs from a future Republican presidential candidate, one that offers a unifying vision for all Americans and disrupts the stagnate axes of discourse between right and left that have impeded the country’s ability to see, let alone solve, existential problems.

Mumfee Ori writes about the centrality of the lunar cycle for timekeeping in Islam and the implications of maintaining the moonsighting status quo in a technological and commercial age that requires reliable and consistent time measurements.

Tristan Tempest asks questions about norms and values, that is to say, about ethics. Despite being so important, not least in the form of politics, we don’t seem to know what ethics really is. For example, is it an invention or discovery? Does it even exist in this universe of ours? Ethics is peculiar and confusing, at least if one doesn’t see its biological origin.