On Discussion and Debate When Democracy is Under Threat

© Howard Gardner 2026 Over the last few years, I have written and posted hundreds of blogs, covering a very wide range of topics. This one is different—it’s personal…and it’s political. Here’s the context: I am the son of German-Jewish parents who emigrated to the United States just in time. Indeed, Hilde and Rudolph Gaertner arrived in New York on November 9, 1938. This was Kristallnacht—the…