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		<title>Karpowitz and Patterson, The Politics of Individualism</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 15:51:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In The Politics of Individualism (Oxford University Press, 2025), Christopher F. Karpowitz and Kelly D. Patterson make an important contribution by defining a new construct, moral individualism. They show that it is prevalent in the USA and may help explain various concerning outcomes, from resistance to public health measures to low voter turnout. This post [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=36194">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>How Do We Renovate American Democracy at the 250th?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 18:46:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You might think that the USA must change deeply over the next decade, which will unfold 250 years after the decade in which our republic originally took shape and will include the first eight years after the Trump Administration. You might also think that this change should be &#8220;civic.&#8221; Perhaps we need reforms to make [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=36176">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>the humanities for specialists and for everyone</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 12:56:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine a person giving attention to an artifact, something that another human being has made. A toddler listens to a story, a runner hears a song on a headset, a tourist observes a painting in a museum, or a believer listens to a sermon. This is one fundamental experience of the humanities. Notice that anyone [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=36159">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Does reflective patriotism depend on a positive assessment of one’s country’s history?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 14:07:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Educating for American Democracy roadmap asks all educators (and policymakers&#8211;and perhaps students) to address this challenge: &#8220;How can we offer an account of U.S. constitutional democracy that is simultaneously honest about the wrongs of the past without falling into cynicism, and appreciative of the founding of the United States without tipping into adulation?&#8221; I [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=36146">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>on translation as spiritual practice</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:38:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Artificial intelligence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[verse and worse]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The feeling that the world is a bounded whole&#8211;that is the mystical.&#8221; &#8212; Wittgenstein The Spanish word quedar can be translated as to remain, to stay, to meet, to fit, to suit (as in Ese color te queda bien), to be located, to end up, to agree, or to be left with (as in Me [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=36072">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Universities Must Start Graduating More Good Citizens, by Anna Saavedra and Peter Levine</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 15:11:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post is by Anna Saavedra, Director of the Center for Civic Society at the USC Schaeffer Institute for Public Policy and Government Service, and me. I am currently a Nonresident Senior Scholar at the Schaeffer Institute as well as the Lincoln Filene Professor of Citizenship &#38; Public Affairs at Tufts University&#8217;s Jonathan Tisch College [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=36069">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>a civic common reading program</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 14:43:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the Alliance for Civics in the Academy, we say: Civic education should be a shared intellectual activity, grounded in texts, aimed at building a practical capacity for listening to and acting together with others, including those of differing beliefs. I believe that citizenship or civic engagement is about more than texts and spoken words. [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=36044">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Civic Studies in the Rust Belt: on the tempos of change</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 20:09:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m heading home from Dayton, OH. Tomorrow, we&#8217;ll go to my hometown, Syracuse, NY for a visit. Each city has lost about half of its peak population of about a quarter of a million people since the later 1900s. The main cause in both cases has been deindustrialization; hardly any factory jobs remain in either [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=36033">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>the Gulf equilibrium</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 12:53:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[At this hour, the headlines say that Donald Trump has called off strikes on Iran because negotiations are almost concluded, while Iran denies that there are any talks. Maybe an agreement will soon be signed, but I think not. Financial Times commentator Chris Giles argues that the US-Iran war is in a &#8220;bounded equilibrium.&#8221; Whenever [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=36005">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>where is the attention?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 15:36:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Continental philosophy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes, my dog wonders something about me. Perhaps: Will I will play with him? He stares at my face, which means he must look quite far above his own head. His nostrils may twitch, and I guess that he is gathering as much data as he can with his nose. His head is cocked, which [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=35945">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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