Acknowledgments ix
Prologue: A Beginner's Mind xiii
Part I The Polluted Public Square 1
Section A Smashing Heads Doesn't Open Minds
1. Like Ships in the Night
by Steve Rosell 5
2. The Advocacy Trap
by Roger Conner 13
3. Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me)
by Carol Tavris 21
4. Morality Binds and Blinds
by Jonathan Haidt 32
5. Why We Want to Be Misled
by Dan Kahan 38
Section B A Failure to Communicate
6. Facts Are Not Enough
by George Lakoff 47
7. Matters of Concern
by Bruno Latour 53
Section C Duped and How
8. The Self-regulating Psychopath
by Noam Chomsky 67
9. Steve Bannon's Full-service Propaganda Machine with research
by Carole Cadwalladr 77
10. Foreign-funded Radicals 92
11. Assault on Democracy
by Alex Himelfarb 104
12. Silencing the Voices of Others
by Jason Stanley 110
13. Gaslighting Blurs Our Reality
by Bryant Welch 116
14. Summary: The Polluted Public Square 121
Part II Speak the Truth, But Not to Punish 129
Section D Leaning into the Future
15. Power and Love
by Adam Kahane 133
16. No Fish? No Fish Sticks
by Peter Senge 144
17. Listen Deeply
by Otto Scharmer 155
Section E The Mighty Tool of Public Narrative
18. What Are They Thinking?
by Ed Maibach 167
19. The Myth of Apathy
by Renee Lertzman 181
20. Psychic Numbing
by Paul Slovic 189
21. Sometimes David Wins
by Marshall Ganz 197
Section F From the Heart
22. The Golden Rule
by Karen Armstrong 211
23. Tending Our Inner Ecology
by Joan Halifax 216
24. Speak the Truth, But Not to Punish
by Thich Nhat Hanh 224
25. We Need Warmheartedness with the 14th Dalai Lama 233
Epilogue: Hope, Compassion, and Courage 244
Notes 257
Index 273
About the Author 283
About New Society Publishers 284