by jpitney | Dec 3, 2025 | Civic Education, Claremont McKenna College, Conservative', Higher Education
Benjamin Storey and Jon A. Shields at Persuasion: [R]eintroducing intellectual conservatism to our universities will temper, not accelerate, our polarization. Today’s partisan spirit is a reductionist one: tell me if so-and-so is left or right, a squish or a solid, a...
by jpitney | Dec 2, 2025 | California Politics, Los Angeles
Liam Dillon at Politico: On the Friday before Thanksgiving, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass announced “a major milestone” in the recovery from January’s wildfires that razed 13,000 homes across the region: A four-bedroom house in Pacific Palisades had received its final...
by jpitney | Dec 1, 2025 | Journalism, Journalists, Local Government
From the Associated Press: AP Fund for Journalism today announced significant commitments from several organizations, including the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Lilly Endowment Inc. and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, that will help power...
by jpitney | Nov 30, 2025 | Civic Education, civic virtue, Civility, Higher Education
A November 18 release from NYU: New York University today announced the launch of the Berkley Institute for Civil Discourse and Civic Solutions, a University-wide initiative that engages students, scholars, and leaders with divergent perspectives to tackle the most...
by jpitney | Nov 29, 2025 | Congress, House of Representatives
Speaker Johnson has problems with discharge petitions. Jennifer Scholtes, Nicholas Wu and Meredith Lee Hill at Politico: On the Louisiana Republican’s watch, the “discharge petition” has caught fire. Rank-and-file lawmakers have managed five times since he won his...
