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		<title>attitudes about AI by age</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 16:19:29 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Artificial intelligence]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the New York Times, Michelle Goldberg writes that college students are jeering at tech oligarchs who give commencement speeches about the benefits of AI. A Wall Street Journal article begins, &#8220;The only thing growing faster than the artificial-intelligence industry may be Americans&#8217; negative feelings about it&#8212;as former Google Chief Executive&#160;Eric Schmidt&#160;saw on Friday&#8221; when [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=35664">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>an overview of civics in higher education</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 14:02:06 +0000</pubDate>
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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 at Tufts University and the&#160;Alliance for Civics in the Academy (ACA), with support from&#160;GBH, held a one-day national summit on civics in higher education. All day, we heard from leaders of exemplary programs that emphasize various combinations of community engagement, academic coursework, and research and experimentation [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=35679">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>people as clusters of attention</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 12:26:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Artificial intelligence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Buddhism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[contemporary ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Attention is endangered. It is what Silicon Valley has learned to capture and commoditize. It is what LLMs pretend to offer by speaking in the first-person singular, often in a sycophantic voice. It is what my iPhone takes from me. It is what Donald Trump constantly demands. To understand why our attention should be valuable [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=35640">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>is Black Studies Civic Studies?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 20:23:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Hollis Robbins has a great article about the relationship between Black Studies and Civic Studies or Civic Thought. This is a timely question, because initiatives labeled as Civic Thought are growing rapidly. Although legislation passed by conservative state legislatures has created many (not all) of these initiatives, they should not be stereotyped as simply conservative. [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=35627">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Tangle</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 13:09:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Buddhism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[verse and worse]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Snarled, knotted&#8212;these neurons got as tangledAs the hair on top. The living are snaggedIn their own matted mess, they are this thatch.Who, I ask you, can fix such a tangle?&#8221;&#8220;A person. Ethical. Concentrating. Insightful. Methodical yet ardent.Someone who has fully accepted this task.This person can unravel the tangle.&#8220;Desire, hatred, and ignorance fadeWhile you pay attention [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=35611">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>federal spending and employment after a year of Trump</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 18:52:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is common advice-and wise&#8211;to specify your own assumptions about the world, find data to test them, and update as necessary. Thus, as we move through the second year of the second Trump administration, it&#8217;s worth noticing what you assume about recent trends and then checking those assumptions. You might think that Donald Trump has [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=35587">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>love of the world</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:40:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[civic theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Continental philosophy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have just completed one of my favorite teaching experiences ever, a semester of reading Hannah Arendt with about 20 students who were deeply committed to understanding her, debating her ideas critically, and living up to her expectations for integrity and rigor. On the first day, we watched a portion of her 1964 interview on [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=35566">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>My Own Heart Let Me Have More Pity On</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:32:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[notes on poems]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is the last of Gerard Manley Hopkins&#8217; &#8220;terrible sonnets&#8221; (terrible in the sense that they seem to describe deep depression): My own heart let me more have pity on; letMe live to my sad self hereafter kind,Charitable; not live this tormented mindWith this tormented mind tormenting yet. I cast for comfort I can no [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=35569">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>the Gulf War and the energy transition</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:55:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Whether the current war in the Persian Gulf will push the world away from carbon depends on many factors, including the trajectory of the war and the policy responses of many countries. David Wallace-Wells offers a roundup of recent news, which generally paints an optimistic picture about the rapid recent shift to renewables. I&#8217;d also [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=35494">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>reforming the parties, and especially the Democrats</title>
		<link>https://peterlevine.ws/?p=35532</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:57:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[We should change the functions of the US political parties. This is a different topic from the important&#8211;but permanent&#8211;debate about what each party should stand for. As far as I know, every accountable legislative body in the world is organized into parties, which means that parties play an essential role in governance. Our two-party system [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=35532">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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