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		<title>beautiful structures and the revival of public life</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 20:20:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1983, David P. Billington began his book The Tower and the Bridge with words that could be written today: While automation prospers, our roads, bridges, and urban civil works rot. Children control computers while adults weave between potholes. The higher that high technology sails the worse seem our earthbound services for water, transportation, and [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=36486">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>community engagement and concern for democratic values</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2026 20:28:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am interested in the Tocquevillian thesis that participating in voluntary groups enhances democratic and liberal values. John Dewey was another major proponent of this view. Alan Ryan emphasizes Dewey&#8217;s belief that democracy, properly understood, &#8220;bubble[s] naturally upward from small-scale interactions and [is] not to be imposed from above.&#8221; (Ryan, John Dewey and the High [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=36476">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>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 16:23:44 +0000</pubDate>
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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>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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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>How Do We Renovate American Democracy at the 250th?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 18:46:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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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>Civic Studies in the Rust Belt: on the tempos of change</title>
		<link>https://peterlevine.ws/?p=36033</link>
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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>what it would take for the public to trust science</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 13:44:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On July 19, the President posted on the social media platform that he owns: The National Academy of Sciences has historically published analytical Scientific Manuals expressly for our Federal Judiciary. Of course, the Academy has been run by Radical Left Dumocrats who, it turns out, published fraudulent, biased, and misleading Manuals on Climate Change. These [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=35917">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>love of the world</title>
		<link>https://peterlevine.ws/?p=35566</link>
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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>
		<link>https://peterlevine.ws/?p=35382</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 17:21:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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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>
		<link>https://peterlevine.ws/?p=35123</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 17:42:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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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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