Desmond Tutu’s wisdom on life’s frustrations. Dear Friends, This June’s idea comes from my manuscript-in-progress, Are We Going to Be Okay? I began this project in response to a question from my daughter (from which the book takes its title). But it’s since grown into...
Gary Slutkin gives us a roadmap in The End of Violence. Dear friends, Last month, we shared Aziz Abu Sarah and Maoz Inon’s beautiful and revolutionary book, The Future Is Peace, which takes us on an unforgettable journey through the Holy Land, revealing that war is...
Announcing the loss of our dear author and friend. Dear Friends, I am very sad to share with you that one of the great lights on our planet went out on April 27th: our beloved friend and author Edith Eger died at the age of ninety-eight. I met Edie through Philip...
Aziz Abu Sarah and Maoz Inon show that war is naive and peace is pragmatic. As a new war rages across the Middle East, it’s easy to surrender to the belief that we’ve entered an era of perpetual war—that bombs will always be falling and people will always be suffering...
Suzanne Simard’s new research from When the Forest Breathes. This month’s big idea comes from our dear friend, scientist Suzanne Simard. In her soon-to-be-published book, When the Forest Breathes (March 31, 2026), Suzanne shows that the forest’s cycle of destruction...
Dear Friends, Life-changing books remain at the core of everything we do, but this year—in this space on Substack—we’re excited to open another window into our work. Every month in 2026, we’re going to share one Big Idea our team can’t stop talking about: an idea that...
