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		<title>why the humanities could never be automated</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 14:28:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes, we want to answer questions to accomplish practical outcomes. For example, we want to know whether a vaccine works so that we can decide whether to use it. Or we may seek basic insights about viruses so that we can develop vaccines in the first place. Sometimes, we want to know things because we [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=35823">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>from the spring summit on civics in higher education</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:34:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[advocating civic education]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On April 10, the Tisch College of Civic Life, the Alliance for Civics in the Academy, and GBH (formerly WGBH-Boston) organized a national summit on civics in higher education. Some outputs from that summit are now public. Joanna Kenty kindly published a version of my opening remarks in The Renovator, under the heading &#8220;What was [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=35793">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>comparing the EU, the UK and the USA</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 16:02:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve seen several recent comparisons of the economies and the general quality of life on each side of the North Atlantic. Sometimes the &#8220;hook&#8221; for an article is the arrival of hundreds of thousands of Europeans in the USA for the World Cup. Other articles comment on the 10th anniversary of the Brexit vote, which [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=35757">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>honor, shame and Southern Christianity</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 16:55:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1946, the pioneering anthropologist Ruth Benedict introduced a distinction between guilt cultures and honor-shame cultures in her book about Japan, The Chrysanthemum and the Sword, which was based on research that she had conducted for the U.S.&#160;Office of War Information during WWII. I have no basis for assessing whether she was insightful about Japan. [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=35797">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>effortful attention and moral responsibility</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 14:08:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Buddhism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[contemporary ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When are we responsible for what we do, or for what we think and feel? Some connect responsibility to the will and ask whether the will is free. In any given situation, a person (or a group, a non-human animal, or a machine) either has a will that is free or does not; this is [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=35781">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>taking stock of US green energy policy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 17:19:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, The New York Times published a piece entitled, &#8220;Democrats Once Vowed to Stop Oil and Gas. Now They&#8217;re Not So Sure.&#8221; (Subtitle: &#8220;As the midterm elections approach, many leading Democrats are rethinking their approach to climate change.&#8221;) Today, Paul Krugman has a post entitled &#8220;Donald Trump, Champion of Renewable Energy&#8221; that predicts the [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=35776">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>universities and newsrooms as laboratories or debating societies</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 19:10:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Higher education and the press are important sources of knowledge and insight in modern societies. I think that many people who are interested and concerned about these institutions view them as similar to either 1) labs or 2) debating societies. Both metaphors contain some truth but also mislead. If you imagine an academic program or [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=35769">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Americans’ attitudes on the Bicentennial and at age 250</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 18:23:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I played a very modest advisory role in the new NBC News Poll with More Perfect headlined &#8220;America 250.&#8221; As the graph above shows, most Americans say that we have succeeded (either a great deal or a fair amount) &#8220;over these 250 years in achieving the ideals for which this country was founded, as you [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=35759">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>how markets predict news</title>
		<link>https://peterlevine.ws/?p=35744</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:42:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I am absolutely no expert on Iran or international relations more generally. I happen to hold a theory, for whatever it might be worth. I think that the Iranian regime is hoping that the current war will cause a real economic crisis in the US&#8211;not a modest uptick in our inflation rate, but a serious [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=35744">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>is your consciousness a stream?</title>
		<link>https://peterlevine.ws/?p=35739</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:45:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I recommend do-it-yourself (DIY) phenomenology. It is good for mental health to attend closely to our own experience, especially the ambiguous aspects of our inner lives, such as how we experience the will, the past, or our relationship to our own bodies. We should think about what we find when we introspect. The goal is [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=35739">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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