When Congress Remembered How to Be Friends

A forgotten weekend in 1997 shows how trust and friendship once restored Congress—and why they must again.

I’m Alexandra Hudson, author of The Soul of Civility and founder of Civic Renaissance, a movement to renew our culture through beauty, wisdom, and civility. Here, we take part in the Great Conversation—the ongoing dialogue among seekers across time and place about what it means to live well, to belong, and to flourish together. Civic Renaissance exists …