Democracy Café

Dr. Richard Bernstein has not only been a generous supporter of our nonprofit Democracy Cafe, but is the organizer and facilitator of one of our longest-running Socrates Cafes, at the Ethical Culture Society in Teaneck, New Jersey. He related in a New York Times feature about Socrates Cafe in 2004 that he became ''hooked'' by the fact that ''it was a community of people that are passionate about ideas and people who really see that ideas make a difference.'' Dr. Bernstein, who studied philosophy at Yale, and had attended the original Socrates Cafe in Montclair, New Jersey, before starting one of his own, makes the compelling case that the kinds of philosophical exchanges our nonprofit promulgates, our flagship Socrates Cafe endeavor in particular, are arguably more needed than ever. Listen in. (I also invite you to read an exceptionally insightful essay about the bounties of Socrates Cafe written by Dr. Bernstein. You can access it via this blog post on our nonprofit website: https://www.socratescafe.