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The Sun Interview

    The Sun Interview

    Even Money

    Dietrich Vollrath On Repairing America’s Economic Inequality

    I think the pandemic is changing people’s idea of what the government should and could do. It’s definitely made them frustrated with what it can’t do.

    By Finn CohenAugust 2020
    Even Money
    The Sun Interview

    Not So Different After All

    Frans de Waal On Animal Intelligence And Emotions

    With the coronavirus we have another interesting issue: how we eat wildlife. Ecologists and conservationists have been saying for fifty years that we shouldn’t be eating everything on the planet.

    By Mark LevitonJuly 2020
    Not So Different After All
    The Sun Interview

    The Power Of Story

    Jared Seide On How Listening To Each Other Can Restore Our Humanity

    People want to celebrate the things that symbolize generosity and goodness in their lives. To share that with others and have others understand that this means something to you — that’s an extraordinary act of communion.

    By Hazel Kight WithamJune 2020
    The Power Of Story
    The Sun Interview

    The Four Invasions

    Nick Estes On Indigenous Resistance And The Vision Of A Better Future

    Indigenous people are protecting the earth’s lungs and liver. Without us, civilization would be even farther down the road to its own destruction.

    By Tracy FrischMay 2020
    The Four Invasions
    The Sun Interview

    One Of Us

    Mark W. Moffett On The Social Behavior Of Humans And Other Animals

    It’s important to compare things that are pretty alike, like humans and chimps, with their evolutionary ties, but when you find similarities between things that are ordinarily seen as very different, like humans and ants — that’s where the new ideas come from.

    By Mark LevitonApril 2020
    One Of Us
    The Sun Interview

    Blind Hate

    Randy Blazak On Why White Supremacy Persists

    Generation Z, my daughter’s generation, is the most racially mixed and most diverse, and they are the worst nightmare of the old white supremacists.

    By Thacher SchmidMarch 2020
    Blind Hate
    The Sun Interview

    We Will Be Seen

    Tressie McMillan Cottom On Confronting Racism, Sexism, And Classism

    We are more comfortable in our culture talking about the distant past. We love black history; it’s black people we don’t like.

    By Mark LevitonFebruary 2020
    We Will Be Seen
    The Sun Interview

    A Test Of Our Compassion

    Louisa Willcox & David Mattson On The Plight Of Grizzly Bears

    Do we want a deeper, richer relationship with nature, or do we want to just kill everything and live through our smartphones?

    By Savannah BarnesJanuary 2020
    A Test Of Our Compassion
    The Sun Interview

    The World We Still Have

    Barry Lopez On Restoring Our Lost Intimacy With Nature

    One of the reasons we’re lonely . . . is that we’ve cut ourselves off from the nonhuman world, and have called this “progress.”

    By Fred BahnsonDecember 2019
    The World We Still Have
    The Sun Interview

    An Imperfect Union

    Astra Taylor On The Inherent Conflict Between Capitalism And Democracy

    I resist seeing Trump as just a fluke or an aberration, because it’s too flattering to ourselves. When people say, “Trump’s not us,” I think, Maybe we need to see how he is us, so we can prevent this from happening again.

    By Finn CohenNovember 2019
    An Imperfect Union

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