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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>
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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>
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		<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>
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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>
				<category><![CDATA[civic theory]]></category>

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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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		<title>preparing for a threat to the fall election</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 16:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2026 election]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Under the headline &#8220;This Is What&#8217;s Keeping Me Up at Night,&#8221; New York Times columnist (and Charles F. Kettering Foundation Senior Fellow) David French sketches a disturbing scenario. The Democrats may win a majority of House seats this fall. Donald Trump and many allies would decry the election as rigged and corrupt. When the House [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=35941">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>
				<category><![CDATA[civic theory]]></category>
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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>paradigms of attention</title>
		<link>https://peterlevine.ws/?p=35895</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:43:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[science, technology and society]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine that you run a laboratory in which you give people or animals stimuli (for instance, showing them shapes on a screen or making sounds) and you record their responses. Sometimes, your subjects miss things in interesting ways. For example, in the Invisible Gorilla experiment, viewers are told to count how many times players pass [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=35895">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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