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‘EXHAUSTED MAJORITY’
We’re going through more trauma than we can bear right now. But history teaches a hopeful lesson: sometimes societies need trauma to begin to heal.
Peter T. Coleman is a professor of psychology and education at Columbia University who studies intractable conflict and sustainable peace, and whose next book, The Way Out: How to Overcome Toxic Polarization will be released in 2021.
We’re going through more trauma than we can bear right now. But history teaches a hopeful lesson: sometimes societies need trauma to begin to heal.