Art Is Fear

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Philippa Hughes

Creating space for conversations to transform society. Exploring what it means to be American. Recovering lawyer, public speaker, art fanatic philippahughes.com

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People over profit

The Kennedy Center cut the Social Impact program yesterday. As a Social Practice Resident in this projects, I had been working on two…

Practice what you preach

When JD Vance was booed at the Kennedy Center last week, I would have joined in had I been there. Yet as I reflected, I questioned whether…

Back To School

One of the things I loved most about college was the conversations. Sometimes my hallmates and I would sit in the hallway in our pajamas…

Rails, resistance, resilience

Remembering the time I visited this Instagram-famous place in Hanoi where you can sit at a cafe alongside train tracks and watch a train…

Income inequality threatens our humanity

During a recent conversation I organized with folks from across the political spectrum, we disagreed on the question of income inequality…

Fight for beauty

This is how we resist — by creating beauty that connects us, by building spaces that bring us together, by tending to hope even in the…

Beauty is what we are fighting for

I gave a Lassie’s Toast for Burns day last weekend!

Postcard From Paris

My best recommendation for visiting Paris, though, is to pick one thing to do each day and flâneur in the general direction of that…

Conversations with Care and Delight

At the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo, an exhibit on dialogue asks: “Can dialogue create change?”

Have you eaten?

To eat is to know Vietnam. To show love in Vietnam is to feed. To ask “Have you eaten?” is to say “I love you.” Sharing meals is not just…

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