by jpitney | Feb 22, 2022 | Patriotism, Russia, Ukraine, Uncategorized
David French: To understand how a healthy patriotism can lead to solidarity with and empathy for others, it’s worth returning to perhaps the most helpful framing of the virtues of patriotism and the temptations of nationalism that I’ve ever read. In his book The Four...
by jpitney | Feb 1, 2022 | Congress, Deliberation, House of Representatives, Uncategorized
John D. Rackey, Lauren C. Bell, and Kevin R. Kosar at The Washington Post: In ournew research, we collect and code every identifiable witness who appeared before every standing committee in the U.S. House of Representatives between 1971 and 2016, accounting for...
by jpitney | Jan 29, 2022 | Ukraine, Uncategorized
Eleven years ago, former President George H.W. Bush observed the 20th anniversary of Ukrainian independence:
by jpitney | Dec 20, 2021 | Bipartisanship, civic virtue, Civility, Congress, Uncategorized
Patricia Murphy at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: If a single moment epitomizes the legacy of Johnny Isakson, it came on the day in 2019 after the late U.S. Rep. John Lewis spoke in Isakson’s honor. Lewis, the longtime Georgia Democrat, had spoken of his admiration...
by jpitney | Nov 24, 2021 | California Politics, Local Government, Redistricting, Uncategorized
The 2020 census found that Los Angeles County had slightly more than ten million people. Each of its five supervisors represents about two million. To put it another way, any supervisorial district has more people than the entire state of Nebraska. The immensity of...
by jpitney | Nov 13, 2021 | Uncategorized, Violence
Lisa Lerer and Astead W. Herndon at NYT: [V]olent talk has tipped over into actual violence in ways big and small. School board members and public health officials have faced a wave of threats, prompting hundreds to leave their posts. A recent investigation by Reuters...
