by jpitney | Feb 9, 2021 | Civic Education, civic virtue, Elections
AEI Scholar Frederick Hess:
by jpitney | Feb 1, 2021 | Biden, Civic Education, civic virtue, Civility, Deliberation, Democracy, Polarization
A release from the University of Virginia Center for Politics Responding to President Joe Biden’s inaugural request to end the “uncivil war” in America, the University of Virginia Center for Politics is launching a yearlong national Civility Project in an effort to...
by jpitney | Sep 29, 2020 | Character, Civic Education, civic virtue
Daniel Stid at The Art of Association: We need some hope and a sense of how we might regain our footing as citizens to renew the world’s oldest democracy. We can find them in a recent report from the American Academy of Arts and Science’s Commission on...
by jpitney | Aug 8, 2020 | Civic Education, Civility, Deliberation
Eman Hamid, an incoming first-year student at Claremont McKenna College, founded the Purple America Initiative, a national organization to promote civility and deliberation. Last year, she wrote We are living in a critical moment in time. A moment in which the media...
by jpitney | Jun 16, 2020 | Civic Education
Chester E. Finn, Jr. at AEI: Conservatives should support a national citizenship curriculum to ensure that all students are taught basic civics, such as how the government works and who we are as a nation. The curriculum should be comprised of the vital concepts all...
by jpitney | Jun 4, 2020 | Civic Education, civic virtue, History, Lincoln
Yuval Levin at National Review: A fuller sense of our own history must include a sense of the history of racial oppression in our country—a story which has not ended by any means. But it must also include a sense of the history of struggle against racial oppression, a...
