by jpitney | Jan 16, 2023 | African American, Civil Rights, Uncategorized
Daniel Stid: We have to avoid the temptation to domesticate Martin Luther King Jr. It is comforting to see him only as the aspirational dreamer of a color-blind society, a vision especially reassuring to white Americans, and leave things at that. But there was a...
by jpitney | Jan 14, 2023 | Uncategorized
WXYZ-TV in Detroit reports on The Civility Project:
by jpitney | Jan 2, 2023 | Claremont McKenna College, Journalism, Journalists, Uncategorized
A list in progress (updated January 2, 2023) Chandler Presson `21— New York Digital Hub Editor, Modern Luxury Blaise Malley `20 — reporter, Responsible Statecraft Torrey Hart `19 — staff editor, The Athletic [Oakland, CA] Malea Martin `19 — Staff Writer. Mountain...
by jpitney | Nov 28, 2022 | civic virtue, counties, Uncategorized
Adam Seagrave at NR: {The] he most basic and decisive reason we can’t look to the national and state governments for American civic renewal is that the American experiment was always, from the beginning, an experiment in self-government. The “self” in self-government...
by jpitney | Nov 10, 2022 | Congress, House of Representatives, Uncategorized
One need not be a fan of the House Freedom Caucus to acknowledge that this “reality check” is not far off the mark:
by jpitney | Sep 25, 2022 | Reagan, Uncategorized
Justin Wm. Moyer at WP: Channy Laux, 60, is the granddaughter of a refugee from communist China who fled to Cambodia. She was 13 when the communist Khmer Rouge, which would eventually kill almost 2 million people, took over Cambodia in 1975. Her father and brother...