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Educating Democratic Citizens

“If a plague carried off the me […]
Citizens Uniting Across Generations
I’m taking a little different approach with this post, by inviting a guest to share it with me, in dialogue form. In fact, my guest has been present, if invisible, in all of my previous posts. Kate Paskievitch has worked as my intern for well over a year now, while […]
Democracy Finds a Champion in a Giant of American Journalism
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I remember, as an undergraduate, reading Hedrick Smith’s dispatches to the
Edging Beyond Either/Or

The COVID pandemic has presented our species with a uniquely far-reaching and thoroughgoing challenge. My point here is no […]
Mobs, Tribes, and Problem-Solvers

For many of us, the most enduring memory of the second Trump impeachment trial will undoubtedly center on scenes of our elected representatives and t […]
Pronouns, Presidents, and the Res Publica

In this day and age, a blog post about pronouns might be expected to focus on the issue of personal gender pronouns. […]



