We continue The PARK by thinking about deep understanding or empathy around political difference through an interdisciplinary lens. Political empathy asks that we apply empathetic skills to US politics, a realm that has not only been markedly polarized, it has reflected extreme disconnection between those who identify differently ideologically because they do not share information or space. In the first episode of the series, our host Dr. Lia Howard interviews historian Dr. Brian Rosenwald and executive director of the Penn in Washington program, Deirdre Martinez. Both teach SNF Paideia designated courses that probe American Conservatism, Its Past, Its Present, and Its Future. They talk about the work they're doing in their classrooms and beyond to help students develop deep ways of thinking and acting that foster political empathy as a skill, which seems vital to the health of the US Democratic Republic.

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