Below, I've pasted a list-serve message from John Spady, Coordinator of a new initiative to build a National Dialogue Network and to engage citizens throughout the country in dialogue on current political concerns.  The first step in this initiative is a large...

I suspect it’s been said many times and better before, but I do believe that a sometimes obvious but easily overlooked component of good group discussion—and of a healthy polity—is the ability to create and sustain open spaces for such discussion to occur. That is,...