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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>
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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>Juergen Habermas (1929-2026)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 17:21:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[J&#252;rgen Habermas died on Saturday. His death has been the occasion for several substantial and interesting obituaries. So far, I prefer Gal Beckerman&#8217;s in the New York Times. I took a seminar on Habermas in 1988, when I was a college junior. Georgia Warnke was the professor, and I have kept her useful packet of [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=35382">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Hannah Arendt seminar</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 17:42:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Below is the syllabus of the seminar on Hannah Arendt that I will teach this semester. (I&#8217;d still accept suggestions!) I&#8217;ve removed all the practical information except for my policy on AI, just in case that&#8217;s useful for other teachers. Hannah Arendt (1906-75) personally experienced some of the great events of the 20th century, interacted [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=35123">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>an international discussion of polarization</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2026 18:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last October,&#160;THE CIVICS Innovation Hub&#160;and the&#160;European School of Politics&#160;convened an international group in Istanbul for a conversation about &#8220;trust and polarisation.&#8221; Kameliya Tomova has written a nice summary. I&#8217;ll paste the portion that mentions me below and recommend the rest as well. (Note that I was talking here about the world, not necessarily or specifically [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=35120">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Hannah Arendt: “The problem wasn’t what our enemies did, but what our friends did”</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2025 13:33:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a clip that resonates today. It is from Hannah Arendt&#8217;s 1964 interview on German television. The journalist G&#252;nter Gaus takes her through her life, from her childhood in K&#246;nigsburg to the controversy about her 1963 Eichmann book. At this point in the conversation, Arendt has been describing her work in France in 1933-1941. [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=34217">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>the meanings of ‘civility’</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2025 13:02:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you Google the word &#8220;civility,&#8221; the Internet tells you that it means &#8220;formal politeness and courtesy in behavior or speech.&#8221; This bothers me a bit because the word has had other meanings. Besides, demanding &#8220;formal politeness and courtesy&#8221; in politics can be a way of suppressing criticism and agitation. William H. Chafe describes how [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=34156">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>democracy’s crisis: a system map</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2025 13:43:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The graphic that accompanies this post shows 16 explanations for democracy&#8217;s current crisis for which I think there is persuasive evidence. The arrows indicate significant causal relationships among these factors. The details are entirely debatable. The main point of this model is to suggest a mode of diagnosis and prescription that is different from the [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=34137">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>rule of law means more than obeying laws: a richer vision to guide post-Trump reconstruction</title>
		<link>https://peterlevine.ws/?p=33936</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2025 15:42:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Trump Administration flouts the rule of law by denying its obligation to obey statutes and court rulings. On April 22, two TIME magazine reporters drew Trump&#8217;s attention to a portrait of John Adams that he had &#8220;put in&#8221; the White House. They quoted Adams to the effect that a republic is a government of [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=33936">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>remarks on partisanship</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2025 15:44:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Columbus) These are my notes for a talk today at Ohio State University on the assigned topic of &#8220;civic partisanship&#8221;: If &#8220;partisanship&#8221; means active membership in a political party, then it is desirable. Parties can be worthy components of our civil society, especially when parties are internally diverse and meaningfully organized at the local and [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=33928">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>building a democracy helpdesk</title>
		<link>https://peterlevine.ws/?p=33776</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2025 15:16:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[advocating civic education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This one-minute video introduces a project that Tufts engineering faculty and students and I have begun, with Better Together America and some pro bono advice from the Harvard Law School Transactional Law Clinics. In essence, we are trying to improve Americans&#8217; know-how for launching and sustaining organizations, on the theory that civic organizations preserve democracy. [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=33776">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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