Village SquareCast
By The Village Square
Village SquareCast is the podcast your mother warned you about. We talk politics, religion and race — across color, creed and ideology — and we do it like the partners in democracy that we really ought to be.
At The Village Square, we've had hundreds of conversations with tens of thousands of people — and now we bring you our favorites of these conversations via podcast. We talk in bars, we talk in churches, we talk across a hundred continuous tables in the middle of a street downtown. And through all this talking, we've discovered something truly remarkable — people are hard to hate close up.
Oh, and we really think civics ought not to be boring. We hope you'll join us.
At The Village Square, we've had hundreds of conversations with tens of thousands of people — and now we bring you our favorites of these conversations via podcast. We talk in bars, we talk in churches, we talk across a hundred continuous tables in the middle of a street downtown. And through all this talking, we've discovered something truly remarkable — people are hard to hate close up.
Oh, and we really think civics ought not to be boring. We hope you'll join us.
Latest episode
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Jonathan Haidt: The Anxious Generation
We were honored to hang out with our intellectural hero, Dr. Jonathan Haidt, a few weeks before the release of his recent book Unsurprisingly, since its release, it became an instant #1 New York Times bestseller. If you have kids, if you know kids..… -
UNUM Series: The Soul of Civility
“Fragile Neighborhoods is an essential and engaging read for everyone who wants to better understand the challenges facing our cities, towns and our nation at large.” Richard Florida – Bestselling Author of “The Rise of the Creative Class”... -
Fragile Neighborhoods with Dr. Seth Kaplan
“Fragile Neighborhoods is an essential and engaging read for everyone who wants to better understand the challenges facing our cities, towns and our nation at large.” Richard Florida – Bestselling Author of “The Rise of the Creative Class”... -
God Squad: Everyone is Canceled!
Find the full program online here — and meet The God Squad: . We’re living in a time when a bad choice of words (much less a deeply held countercultural opinion) can tank your career, in a media environment where some are doing a... -
Dr. Jonathan Haidt | After Babel: "The Fragmentation of Everything"
We wanted you wonderful SquareCast listeners to know that we didn't plan for this episode to drop on Leap Day and we didn't plan on it being (we kid you not) Episode 100. But both things just happened. At the very least, we think that's a sign that..… -
The Big Sort with Bill Bishop
Pulitzer Prize finalist journalist Bill Bishop joins The Village Square for Dinner at the Square. (See photos from the event .) Turns out Americans have been sorting ourselves in every aspect of our lives – in the news we watch, the books we read,... -
Being Human in Divided Times: A fireside chat with Village Square founder Liz Joyner
In this episode of SquareCast Village Square Founder & CEO Liz Joyner let Village SquareCast Corey Nathan talk her into being the guest in an episode. It’s hard to get away from the doom scroll that typifies our life and times right now —... -
Rachel Brown: The Roots of Belonging & The Risks of Othering
In this episode of SquareCast we're joined by the extraordinary Rachel Brown, the Founder of —named in reference to the “zero sum game” that exists in sporting events, but becomes dangerous when it overtakes a society, as it has ours. Over... -
Stephen P. Kiernan: Authentic Patriotism
In this age of deep and growing civic divisions, perhaps it's time to revise the comic strip Pogo's iteration of U.S. Navy Master Commandant Oliver Perry's quote from the War of 1812: "We have met the enemy and it is us." From our special Dinner at..… -
God Squad: Ending the Cycle of Mean
Americans are sad and lonely, and we don’t feel like we belong. With depression and “deaths of despair” on the rise, over half of us say that no one knows us well—a truly alarming statistic that doesn’t bode well for our future. As if...