Speaking and Popular Writing

I’m currently booking into 2025 for writing and speaking gigs. Below are some samples and possible themes for talks and popular pieces, but anything you read here is fair game! You can submit a speaking or writing inquiry directly on my website.

Recent Op-Eds

Liberals Have to Stop Treating Trump Voters As Enemies Real Clear Politics (12.6.24)

Recent Podcast Interviews

NPR’s Campbell Conversations with Grant Reeher (12.14.24)

What is Radical Moderation? The Curious Task podcast (11.6.24)

Recent Talks

Life in Four Dimensions

This one is an accessible talk on escaping binary thinking and employing radical moderation in our lives, our relationships, and our politics. It can be tailored to a variety of audiences and interests and has some fun autobiographical flair.

Universities as Neutral Cartographers

This talk is aimed more at academic audiences, exploring when and how universities go wrong. The goal of university research and education is not to achieve some kind of pre-defined outcome but instead to create accurate maps of our shared landscapes so we can all make better decisions - together.

Family, Moderation, and Civil Society

This one looks at how the family as an institution challenges ideological views of the world and moves us back to the moderate middle. It’s based off my 2014 book, but can be adapted for any audience.

What Elites Owe the Rest of Us

I’ve been thinking about this a lot more recently (go figure). This talk explores the dangers of binary thinking and how the media, universities, and political figures inadvertently or intentionally trigger binary and zero sum thinking. I end with a list of duties elites have and provide some resources and hopeful signs from people on the ground that we’re moving in the right direction.

Other Topics

I also have a number of scholarly talks that I give in areas relating to bioethics and healthcare regulations (often looking at maternity care or end of life care, but other areas as well), and a few other areas that you can see on my website with a more comprehensive list of past talks on my LinkedIn.