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		<title>what sustains free speech?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2019 14:27:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My remarks last week at a small conference on &#8220;Tolerance, Citizenship, and the Open Society&#8221; at the Tisch College of Civic Life &#8230; We human beings did not evolve to take a broad view of justice, to collect information from &#8230; <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=21147">Continue reading <span>&#8594;</span></a>
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		<title>the Historovox</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2019 21:02:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Corey Robin&#8217;s essay, &#8220;Why Has It Taken Us So Long to See Trump&#8217;s Weakness?,&#8221; is mainly interesting as an argument about trends in reporting. Robin criticizes a new genre of journalism that forgoes the pedestrian task of reporting the news &#8230; <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=21032">Continue reading <span>&#8594;</span></a>
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		<title>a civic approach to free speech</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2019 17:51:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[deliberation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I argued in a recent post that libertarians, social democrats, American liberals, and most US Constitutional scholars share a sharp distinction between the state and the private sector&#8211;but this distinction does not reflect our actual experience of the social world. &#8230; <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=21025">Continue reading <span>&#8594;</span></a>
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		<title>Sinclair and Bezos: media ownership and media bias</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2018 16:15:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[These two stories ran on the same page of the print New York Times on April 2: &#8220;Sinclair Videos Renew Debate Over Media Ownership&#8221; and &#8220;To Trump, It&#8217;s the &#8216;Amazon Washington Post.&#8217; To Its Editor, That&#8217;s Baloney.&#8221; Both articles are &#8230; <a href="http://peterlevine.ws/?p=19790">Continue reading <span>&#8594;</span></a>
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		<title>how information relates to power, according to C.V. Wedgewood</title>
		<link>http://peterlevine.ws/?p=19737</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2018 14:44:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[C.V. (Veronica) Wedgewood&#8217;s The Thirty Years War is almost a century old, but it remains an inexhaustible source of insights. TaNahisi Coates loves it, too: &#8220;Take this for whatever it&#8217;s worth but she writes better than any historian I&#8217;ve ever &#8230; <a href="http://peterlevine.ws/?p=19737">Continue reading <span>&#8594;</span></a>
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		<title>media literacy and the social discovery of reality</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2018 16:10:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re concerned about media education in the current fraught moment, you should read danah boyd&#8217;s &#8220;You Think You Want Media Literacy&#8230; Do&#160;You?&#8221;&#160;and Renee Hobbs&#8217;&#160;response in Medium. In my crude summary: danah boyd surveys some media literacy programs and sees &#8230; <a href="http://peterlevine.ws/?p=19717">Continue reading <span>&#8594;</span></a>
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		<title>22 million new voters by 2020</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2018 13:46:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2018 election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[advocating civic education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[With&#160;The LAMP, a New York City nonprofit that works on media and digital literacy skills, my colleagues at&#160;CIRCLE are launching the 22&#215;20 Campaign, which has the tagline &#8220;22 million new voters by the year 2020.&#8221; For the night of the &#8230; <a href="http://peterlevine.ws/?p=19545">Continue reading <span>&#8594;</span></a>
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		<title>don’t let the behavioral revolution make you fatalistic</title>
		<link>http://peterlevine.ws/?p=18582</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jun 2017 15:50:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beginning in the late 1960s, Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman shook the prevailing assumption that human beings can plan and make decisions rationally. Their&#160;experiments demonstrated that we&#160;use &#8220;simplifying heuristics rather than extensive algorithmic processing&#8221; to make decisions. We&#160;err in predictable &#8230; <a href="http://peterlevine.ws/?p=18582">Continue reading <span>&#8594;</span></a>
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		<title>why Trump fans aren’t holding him accountable (yet)</title>
		<link>http://peterlevine.ws/?p=18018</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2017 22:24:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Washington DC) Kevin Drum imagines how a Trump fan receives the president&#8217;s tweets: You&#8217;re at home, watching the Factor, and O&#8217;Reilly is going on about the crime problem in Chicago. It&#8217;s outrageous! The place is a war zone! Somebody should &#8230; <a href="http://peterlevine.ws/?p=18018">Continue reading <span>&#8594;</span></a>
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		<title>prospects for civic media after 2016</title>
		<link>http://peterlevine.ws/?p=17843</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2016 17:36:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2016 election]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Civic Media:&#160;Technology, Design, Practice&#160;is a new book edited&#160;by Eric Gordon and Paul Mihailidis. I contributed the introductory chapter, &#8220;Democracy in the Digital Age.&#8221; On Nov. 16, I joined Eric, Paul,&#160;Ethan Zuckerman (MIT), Colin Rhinesmith (Simmons), Beth Coleman (University of Waterloo), &#8230; <a href="http://peterlevine.ws/?p=17843">Continue reading <span>&#8594;</span></a>
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