The question I keep being asked is some version of: what are you trying to do here? (followed by: are you crazy?) It’s pretty simple: we can no longer afford the luxury of war. Our technological killing efficiency has far outstripped our collective emotional maturity. In the words of General Omar Bradley in 1948: Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. How Peace

We have backed ourselves into a corner. Our weapons have evolved spectacularly; our emotional maturity has not. We are roughly the same animal we were ten thousand years ago — the same easy slide into fear, the same hunger for in-group versus out-group, the same susceptibility to a persuasive voice telling us who to blame. That gap is the central problem of our age. Two of the greatest minds in modern history have already told us what to do, and we have not listened. In 1932,

Some of the leaders we keep producing are deeply damaged human beings, and the damage is what makes them dangerous. The pattern is too consistent across history to be accidental. Severe early childhood trauma, in some children, cross-wires the nervous system so that the suffering of others becomes a source of arousal and reward. Some of those children are also brilliant. Beneath their public confidence sits a profound powerlessness — the four-year-old who could not stop what