Eboo Patel

President, Interfaith America. Follow @InterfaithUSA. Author, ‘We Need To Build’. Podcast: [email protected]

[Persuasion @JoinPersuasion]

A faculty group calls campus pluralism programs a sinister "Civility Industrial Complex." However, @EbooPatel argues that teaching students to disagree well isn't anti-democratic. It's the whole purpose of the university.
https://t.co/JdO5BE3jLM

[The Chronicle of Philanthropy @Philanthropy]

Opinion: The excesses of DEI 1.0 left many nonprofit leaders quietly uneasy but unsure how to say so. @EbooPatel argues that Tyler Austin Harper's viral @TheAtlantic essay gives the sector permission — and a framework — to finally have the honest conversation.
https://t.co/jOeVLZusI7

[Persuasion @JoinPersuasion]

@EbooPatel reflects on a defining summer road trip across America that shaped his life's vocation.
https://t.co/uEQTTej7p6

[Professor Alice Sullivan @ProfAliceS]

This is a fantastic piece by @EbooPatel On a personal note, Geoffrey Walford was also my doctoral co-supervisor, so I'm delighted to see this:

“I’m failing at this,” I told my PhD advisor, Geoffrey Walford. “I can’t seem to be present at the moments where racism occurs, or even get them to discuss it much in my interviews with them. Maybe I’m asking the wrong questions? Maybe they don’t trust me?”

“Or maybe,” Geoffrey offered, “your theory is wrong. Maybe they don’t see racism impacting their lives as much as you expected—or as much as you want racism to have impacted their lives.”

He added: “Remember, sociology is meant to explore how your subjects understand their own lives, not how you want them to understand their lives. The cardinal sin of the social researcher is squeezing the world into his worldview.”

https://t.co/ur6Z1Lud3U

[Kyle Saunders @profgoose]

@ProfAliceS 6/ With thanks to @ashleytrubin, @ProfAliceS, @HPluckrose, @EbooPatel, @MattLutzPhi and @akoustov for the work this builds on.

Link to post: https://t.co/P5TBY9OTrf

[Eboo Patel @EbooPatel]

Thank you :)

[H S Joshi @jon_stewartmill]

Great article on sociology from @EbooPatel

https://t.co/0XFsZOYLx4

[The Progress Network @progressntwrk]

"In an era of tectonic changes, full of charlatans, we need sociology more than ever to do its job: to be a discipline that helps us develop worldviews that genuinely explain the world around us," writes TPN member @EbooPatel.

"Only then can we hope to improve it for the better."

https://t.co/zUOlWiXORr

[H S Joshi @jon_stewartmill]

Great article on sociology from @EbooPatel

https://t.co/0XFsZOYLx4

[Persuasion @JoinPersuasion]

@EbooPatel argues that if sociology is to regain the trust of students, universities, and the public, it must abandon activist posturing and return to rigorous, open-ended research.
https://t.co/6j0VnsnBpm

[Persuasion @JoinPersuasion]

Read @EbooPatel in Persuasion: https://t.co/6j0VnsnBpm

[Eboo Patel @EbooPatel]

Really moved that you mentioned us, @StevenOlikara . It’s been so inspiring watching you build two significant institutions in the bridging space.

[Steven Olikara @StevenOlikara]

Thank you @Forbes and Afdhel Aziz for profiling our storytelling movement!

I’m grateful to the @BridgeEntLabs community of storytellers who courageously tell more complex, human stories—ones that challenge stereotypes, encourage curiosity, and remind audiences of what they share.

Special shout out to the people and organizations who shaped this bridgebuilding and narrative work and are mentioned in this piece - from my Milwaukee jazz friends to @futurecaucus to @EbooPatel of @interfaithusa.

Those formative experiences and mentors made me a hopeful person and a true believer in the mission. The work now is to scale the belief that a pluralistic society is possible. That happens through the stories we choose to tell.

https://t.co/gTWSdeZusu

[Michael S Roth @mroth78]

Read @EbooPatel & @GovCox "we share a conviction that in an age of loneliness, polarization and technological disruption, America needs more spaces where people can show up as whole human beings and practice citizenship." https://t.co/RqH7UH4n3Q

[Wall Street Journal Opinion @WSJopinion]

America is a potluck, not a melting pot. To appreciate the blessings of liberty, share a meal with your neighbors, write @GovCox and @EbooPatel
https://t.co/EYI9zuawTN

[Wall Street Journal Opinion @WSJopinion]

America is a potluck, not a melting pot. To appreciate the blessings of liberty, share a meal with your neighbors, write @GovCox and @EbooPatel
https://t.co/1V3ab1SXLw

[Eboo Patel @EbooPatel]

The Rise and Fall and Rise Again of Obama-ism. Visiting @ObamaFoundation inspired me to write this piece for @JoinPersuasion @Yascha_Mounk https://t.co/JMdRqpviCs

[Eboo Patel @EbooPatel]

And it’s a response to @GregBerman50 ‘s terrific book, ‘The Nonprofit Crisis’

[Greg Berman @GregBerman50]

Another banger from @EbooPatel on the importance of mission alignment for nonprofits. This is part of a suite of essays that @NiskanenCenter commissioned for a Hypertext forum on declining public trust in the nonprofit sector. https://t.co/spoAn3YwTB

[Kristin M. Collier, MD @HSRdirector]

just a reminder to join me tomorrow, if interested, at noon EST by zoom for my conversation with @EbooPatel from @interfaithusa about medicine and interfaith work

[Eboo Patel @EbooPatel]

This Wednesday at 12:00 p.m. ET, my friend @mroth78 @wesleyan_u is hosting a virtual conversation on what this moment demands of higher education, with leaders from the Bush Institute, Bard, UVA and more.
Go register! https://t.co/O6qjS6B6PC

[Eboo Patel @EbooPatel]

Really thoughtful piece by @mroth78 - higher Ed needs to own its problems (like becoming an ideological monoculture), but universities still have a profound civic mission. https://t.co/HomKBAjn11

[The Chronicle of Philanthropy @Philanthropy]

Opinion: As the conflict with Iran escalates, the U.S. is seeing another rise in Islamophobia. Columnist @EbooPatel writes that civic institutions have a unique responsibility — and opportunity — to respond with pluralism, not polarization.

Patel outlines a five step plan that nonprofits, foundations, universities, libraries, and museums can use to shift anti-Muslim public narratives.
https://t.co/GzluQPB0nj