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		<title>full-time college students spend 90 minutes per day on academics</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 20:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the American Time Use Survey, the median full-time college student in the USA spends 90 minutes per day on &#8220;non-work education activities, such as taking classes, conducting research and homework, administrative tasks, and extracurricular activities except sports.&#8221; The graph with this post shows that more than 45% of full-time college students report spending [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=36390">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>a deliberative response to Trump’s building projects?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 16:42:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine that it&#8217;s 2029 and you have been inaugurated as the President of the United States. (Congratulations and good luck.) You can look out from your bedroom window or during a helicopter ride and see a new ballroom, a huge arch, a helipad, a sculpture garden, and other major physical constructions that your predecessor ordered. [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=36370">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>public intellectuals and the fickle food of fame</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 13:43:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This weekend, at Amherst, I enjoyed a rich conversation about the purposes of liberal arts colleges. One proposal (not mine, but I appreciated it) was for liberal arts colleges to nurture public intellectuals. The colleges represented at the meeting use basically the same criteria and standards for hiring and promotion that research-intensive universities use. Should [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=36340">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Civic Studies and the Black Intellectual Tradition</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 21:36:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Center for the Humanities at Tufts and the Center for Public History will offer a discussion on &#8220;The University and the Democratic Imagination: Civic Studies and the Black Intellectual Tradition&#8221; at 4:30 pm on Oct. 5 with Hollis Robbins, Brandon Terry, and me. Please join us! Robbins is a scholar of American and African [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=36322">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>the university between a club good and the commons</title>
		<link>https://peterlevine.ws/?p=36301</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 16:23:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[civic theory]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The late Elinor Ostrom taught us many useful things, including how to analyze complex situations rigorously to reveal ways to improve them. Instead of reacting to the world with anger and confusion, someone who has learned from Ostrom can break down a problem and look for remedies. I am teaching her work this week to [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=36301">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>do the liberal arts accomplish civic education?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 18:05:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[advocating civic education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Next weekend, I&#8217;ll participate in a discussion at a famous liberal arts college about the various crises facing such institutions. All the other participants will be liberal arts college professors. Although my institution is a research university, the intersection of the liberal arts and civic learning also matters to me. First, the crises that confront [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=36290">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Frontiers of Democracy 2026</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 17:57:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Frontiers of Democracy 2026: The United States at 250: Meeting the Moment for Democracy, in the US and Around the World October 2 &#8211; 4 &#124; Tufts University in Medford, MA Frontiers of Democracy&#160;is an annual conference at Tufts University&#8217;s Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life that convenes practitioners, scholars, leaders, and community members [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=36282">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>two futures for AI, work, and learning</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 14:40:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[AI tools can be designed to accomplish tasks that have been done so far by human workers. Engineers use rubrics to assess and refine the outputs of AI. Their rubrics are often based on human performance. For example, how well does as an LLM perform at writing a contract or allocating investments, compared to a [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=36231">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Wendell Berry, September 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 21:31:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On September 2, I posted Wendell Berry&#8217;s poem with that title on social media, moved that he had just missed the anniversary of the day when, according to the poem, he accepted &#8220;decline&#8221; and recognized that he would dissolve into &#8220;sleep.&#8221; The original appeared in Poetry magazine, May 1970. Berry died on August 31 of [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=36238">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>navigating the social sciences</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 14:33:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a tentative effort to map the social sciences for a novice, such as a student who&#8217;s thinking of taking some social science courses. (It is a counterpart to my recent post on the humanities.) I will risk over-generalizations to offer some pointers. I would start with three familiar cases: The bastions of these [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=36189">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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