These essays in the form of letters to the powerful and struggling suggest that understanding about contrasting views emerging from historical and intellectual contexts can gain votes for those politicians ready to pause in the fighting long enough to listen. The first open letter, “Democrats in Power to Protesters in Streets: Mutual Prods to Peace,” focused on listening across the divisions in the Democratic Party between centrists and progressives, and this one is devoted to listening between Democrats and those Republicans and Independents who are not quite ready to vote for Kamala Harris. Listening is not just nice. Walter Lippmann Read more