What if We're Wrong About Each Other?
By Frank Filocomo Nothing can replace in-person connection. Lura Forcum, in her new Substack, How to Human , explains how her bimonthly potluck dinners foster interpersonal connections and weak-tie relationships that would otherwise be difficult, if not impossible, to cultivate digitally: Every other month, on Sunday evenings, people bring a dish for dinner at my house. Anyone is welcome. It’s not fancy, but the food is good and so is the company. Forcum, who, along with the State Policy Network's Erin Norman, authored Beyond Polarization , is an advocate for socializing with those outside of your ideological orbit (read my write-up of that report in National Review here ). It's true: we tend to surround ourselves with people who are "politically like-minded" and "on the same page," ideologically speaking. There's nothing wrong with this, of course, but, if the goal is the engender a culture of high-trust relationships and communitarian values, we mus...
