Caylan Hays

Friends and fellow citizens,    Author and journalist Keel Hunt joined co-chair Jon Meacham recently to discuss Hunt’s recent book, Crossing the Aisle: How Bipartisanship Brought Tennessee into the 21st Century and Could Save America. As he describes in his book, throughout… Read More

By Leonora Zilkha Williamson  As the calendar turns toward the next election, I think often of a dinner I tried to organize five years ago with two childhood friends (we’re all nearing 50 and spent youthful summers on the beach). The effort failed because of politics. One friend, an ardent… Read More

Friends and fellow citizens, Campus was a little brighter this week as we welcomed back students and began a new academic year. A new semester offers a fresh start and lends optimism to the Vanderbilt Project on Unity & American Democracy’s ongoing work to foster unity and bridge America’s deepest… Read More

Subscribe to our newsletter, On Unity, to keep up to date with the Project’s events, research and publications. Friends and fellow citizens, Summer break is coming to a close, but there’s still time to add our newest episode of Unity Talks:… Read More

Vanderbilt Project on Unity and American Democracy releases second quarterly Vanderbilt Unity Index data measuring Americans’ faith and trust in democracy   Americans’ general faith and trust in democracy has stabilized in the first half of 2022, remaining relatively flat through the second quarter, according to the… Read More