by jpitney | Jul 3, 2025 | Civic Education, civic virtue, Civility, Higher Education
Robert P. George and Cornel West at WP: A university culture of civic friendship is one in which faculty and students recognize, and act consistently with the recognition, that reasonable people of goodwill can respectfully disagree about controversial — indeed, even...
by jpitney | Jun 6, 2025 | Civic Education, Civility
Linda Prevost at Yale: Immediately after the Oct. 7, 2023 attacks on Israel, a group of 10 Yale students from a variety of backgrounds convened on campus to discuss the unthinkable. Brought together by the university’s Civic Thought Initiative (CTI), which...
by jpitney | Jun 4, 2025 | Civic Education, Civility, Deliberation, Higher Education
Claremont McKenna College Commencement, Hiram Chodosh “Your traverse of the stage today is the road the world needs to follow. You prove the possible. The 64% of Americans who have lost confidence in higher education have not met you. You face and surmount the...
by jpitney | Nov 5, 2024 | Civic Education, Elections
Sara Randazzo at WSJ: The 2024 election cycle has seen the sitting president drop out of the race, one of the candidates prosecuted in a criminal trial and the second female presidential candidate on a major-party ticket. It is hard to imagine a better backdrop...
by jpitney | Oct 11, 2024 | Civic Education, Elections, Youth
Voting Carnival sparks civic engagement ahead of 2024...
by jpitney | Aug 26, 2024 | Civic Education, civic virtue, Constitution, Separation of Powers
Frederick M. Hess at AEI: Self-government depends on our accepting electoral outcomes or court decisions even when we disagree vehemently with the result. It depends on presidents and voters understanding that the executive branch isn’t empowered to spend billions of...
