Articles by Shawn Paul Cosner

Shawn Paul Cosner writes about civic duty and the kind of leadership that brings the best out of anyone in the room. Much of his work pushes back against the intentional division being sold to citizens as identity — and the corresponding collapse of civility that has made it harder to think clearly, harder to argue honestly, and harder to live as fellow citizens of the same country. He argues that the republic gets the future its citizens deserve, and that the work of building anything better starts with how each of us shows up. U.S. Army veteran. Juris Doctor, Appalachian School of Law.