The endlessly revived "conversation about race" shows signs of turning into something more serious — a debate about institutional racism, and about inequities in the criminal-justice system, in incarceration, in employment, in education.
Still, the announcement should prompt (or perhaps revive) a conversation about philanthropy as a viable solution: can it truly, effectively produce social change?
IN an age when Democrats and Republicans are barely on speaking terms, you might not think that decades-old paintings of freckled schoolboys and their loyal mutts could help revive the conversation about what we value as a nation.
They had to start some much needed dialogue; to revive a conversation about health in their community.
It was obvious he was losing interest fast, so I just started firing random questions off in a desperate attempt to revive the conversation.
But in the 33 years since JAR founded his company, a booming estate jewelry market has fueled collector interest in signed works; and especially over the past decade, a renaissance in high jewelry making -- among independent designers as well as the traditional French houses -- has revived the conversation about the next generation of work that deserves to remain intact.
It's reviving a conversation among not only the religious, but also the small and growing community of Americans who research and say they know first-hand about the near-death experience.
Ms. Warren is also challenging the centrist consensus on high finance and has sought to revive a dormant conversation about whether investment and commercial banking should be intermingled by introducing a bill to restore Glass-Steagall, an issue few senior Democrats on either end of Pennsylvania Avenue want to revisit.
"Our ability to offer empathy can allow us to stay vulnerable, defuse potential violence, help us hear the word "no" without taking it as a rejection, revive a lifeless conversation, and even hear the feelings and needs expressed through silence.
I desperately tried to revive the now-dead conversation by firing off every question I could think of: "Is it tough to be an athlete?
