by jpitney | Jul 1, 2025 | Civility, Higher Education
Sarah Stitzlein at Inside Higher Ed: The recently released State of the Nation project concluded that “A gnawing sense of angst seems to have descended upon us. We seem polarized and distrustful, worried and pessimistic.” Faculty and students reflect those trends. As...
by jpitney | Nov 2, 2024 | Elections, Madison
James Madison, June 20, 1788 But I go on this great republican principle, that the people will have virtue and intelligence to select men of virtue and wisdom. Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation. No theoretical checks—no form...
by jpitney | Nov 5, 2020 | civic virtue, Civility, Elections, Uncategorized
Yuval Levin at AEI: At the heart of our pervasive crisis of alienation are widespread failures of responsibility, deep-seated cultural divisions and a deadly dearth of solidarity. Such challenges can seem impossibly immense when we look at our country from the top...
by jpitney | Apr 1, 2020 | Civic Education, civic virtue, Coronavirus
Michael Apfeldorf at the Library of Congress. In 1918, the United States faced one of the worst public health challenges in its history. An influenza pandemic – also known as the Spanish flu – infected an estimated 500 million people worldwide, killing 20-50 million...
