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		<title>two futures for AI, work, and learning</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 14:40:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[AI tools can be designed to accomplish tasks that have been done so far by human workers. Engineers use rubrics to assess and refine the outputs of AI. Their rubrics are often based on human performance. For example, how well does as an LLM perform at writing a contract or allocating investments, compared to a [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=36231">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Wendell Berry, September 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 21:31:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[notes on poems]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On September 2, I posted Wendell Berry&#8217;s poem with that title on social media, moved that he had just missed the anniversary of the day when, according to the poem, he accepted &#8220;decline&#8221; and recognized that he would dissolve into &#8220;sleep.&#8221; The original appeared in Poetry magazine, May 1970. Berry died on August 31 of [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=36238">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>navigating the social sciences</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 14:33:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[academia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[science, technology and society]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a tentative effort to map the social sciences for a novice, such as a student who&#8217;s thinking of taking some social science courses. (It is a counterpart to my recent post on the humanities.) I will risk over-generalizations to offer some pointers. I would start with three familiar cases: The bastions of these [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=36189">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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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>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>

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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>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[civic theory]]></category>

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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>
		<link>https://peterlevine.ws/?p=36159</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 12:56:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[academia]]></category>

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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>
				<category><![CDATA[advocating civic education]]></category>

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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>
				<category><![CDATA[academia]]></category>
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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>
		<link>https://peterlevine.ws/?p=36044</link>
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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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