by jpitney | Feb 24, 2020 | Civic Education
Colleen Flaherty at Inside Higher Ed: File it under “possible ways to save the republic”? Purdue University may soon require that all undergraduates, from art historians to wildlife biologists, take and pass a civics test to obtain their degrees. A number of...
by jpitney | Jan 1, 2020 | Civic Education, Judiciary, Social Media, Uncategorized
Chief Justice John Roberts’s annual report: Hamilton, Madison, and Jay ultimately succeeded in convincing the public of the virtues of the principles embodied in the Constitution. Those principles leave no place for mob violence. But in the ensuing years, we...
by jpitney | Dec 21, 2019 | Civic Education, Tocqueville
Cynthia Bambrick at Political Science Now: While most of us may not live in the sort of townships that Tocqueville observed in the Early Republic, we can still glean lessons from the experiences of those who did. Specifically, we can see the importance of the moral...
