Lore
From 1812 to 1823, in perhaps the highest-order intellectual correspondence in all of American history, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson—at the time seven states apart and nearing the final years of their lives—exchanged no fewer than three-hundred letters. Unsurpassed in spirit, content, and style, and spanning philosophy, politics, and religion, their letters serve as lasting testimony to the importance of written-word dialogue in civilized society.
Our Mission
At Pairagraph, our aim is revive this reflective mode of discourse, which has fallen lately into decline.
About
Pairagraph is a platform for written dialogue between pairs of notable individuals: in essence, an online meeting place for the world’s most prominent figures across government, industry, academia, religion, and the arts.
- Our Fundamental Belief -
Our fundamental belief is that the web, though it is partly responsible for the erosion of serious dialogue in society, can be harnessed to revive it so that it might flourish once again.
Leadership
Carter Duncan and Jonathan Stern became friends at Duke University after a chance encounter at Duke’s East Campus dining hall. Both graduated from Duke in 2017, having studied Philosophy, Politics, & Economics. Carter resides in Austin; Jonathan, in Boston.