Confident Pluralism in a Divided World | Salt Lake City News

Salt Lake City News Today | 2 Min News | The Daily News Now! · Jul 5, 2026 · 2m

Harvard professor Danielle Allen reveals how to thrive in a divided world through “confident pluralism”—a powerful framework for living together across deep differences. Drawing from her own family’s political contrasts, she outlines five essential steps: know your own values deeply, commit to institutions and nonviolence, embrace compromise without surrender, listen before you speak, and protect human dignity even in hostility. She shows how the Declaration of Independence itself mastered this art, using inclusive language to unite diverse beliefs. Confident pluralism isn’t passive—it…