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Peter Levine – A Blog for Civic Renewal. I did this analysis, which was released today New nationwide survey by Tufts University researchers finds that parents credit schools with limiting academic harms but see damage to social relationships.THE ANACHRONIST
The Anachronist – A novel and its world. In the year 1596, Anna is about to be burned at the stake. As the constable prepares to light the fire below her, she can do nothing but seek a solution in her own memory and imagination. The Anachronist is a game in which you make choices that determine the outcome. By increasing Anna’s knowledge THE LEGITIMACY OF LABOR UNIONS LEVINE MACRO1.DOC 7/3/01 4:30 PM 528 Hofstra Labor & Employment Law Journal [Vol. 18:527 realize . . . freedom of association and the effective recognition of the right to collective bargaining.”2 But federal and state laws also impose many limitations on the behavior of labor unions, which are weak in the CONSEQUENCES OF PARTICULARISM Consequences of “Particularism” Peter Levine “No philosophy, no analysis, no aphorism, be it ever so profound, can compare in intensity and richness of meaning with a properly narratedTONGUES OF FIRE
A novel by Peter Levine (2000) All manner of thing shall be well. When the tongues of flame are in-folded. Into the crowned knot of fire. And the fire and the rose are one. -- T.S. Eliot, “Little Gidding” (1942) Click to download chapters in .pdf format: frontmatter. chapter1.
JOURNALISM AND DEMOCRACY: DOES IT MATTER HOW WELL THE 2 Our purpose was not mainly to create a public website on the war, but rather to explore how better to link journalism and political theory. We looked for texts in democratic WHYTHENDIDDANTEDAMNFRANCESCA? PERHAPSHEWASTHINKINGLIK5 A 338 PHILOSOPHYANDLITERATURE belowdesire" (Inf. v, 39). Therefore, it is a sin is to favor poetry over philosophy. Socrates bans thepoetsfromthe ideal state becausetheirworkcan PETER LEVINE: IDEOLOGY: PROS AND CONS ideology gives us roughly correct answers while lowering the cost of political participation, thereby allowing poor and poorly educated people to participate. ideology is the only way to solve "voting cycles". I would say No if: there is not a small set of coherent and true principles. it is possible to make judgments individually, and PETER LEVINE: THE BRADLEY REPORT: E PLURIBUS UNUM heading north | Main | college and kids ». June 24, 2008 The Bradley Report: E Pluribus Unum. I just read the Bradley Foundation report on America's National Identity, entitled E Pluribus Unum.It argues that "America is facing an identity crisis," because we do not know enough information about our founders; students are not "taught about America's great heroes, dramatic achievements andPETERLEVINE.WS
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Peter Levine – A Blog for Civic Renewal. I did this analysis, which was released today New nationwide survey by Tufts University researchers finds that parents credit schools with limiting academic harms but see damage to social relationships.THE ANACHRONIST
The Anachronist – A novel and its world. In the year 1596, Anna is about to be burned at the stake. As the constable prepares to light the fire below her, she can do nothing but seek a solution in her own memory and imagination. The Anachronist is a game in which you make choices that determine the outcome. By increasing Anna’s knowledge THE LEGITIMACY OF LABOR UNIONS LEVINE MACRO1.DOC 7/3/01 4:30 PM 528 Hofstra Labor & Employment Law Journal [Vol. 18:527 realize . . . freedom of association and the effective recognition of the right to collective bargaining.”2 But federal and state laws also impose many limitations on the behavior of labor unions, which are weak in the CONSEQUENCES OF PARTICULARISM Consequences of “Particularism” Peter Levine “No philosophy, no analysis, no aphorism, be it ever so profound, can compare in intensity and richness of meaning with a properly narratedTONGUES OF FIRE
A novel by Peter Levine (2000) All manner of thing shall be well. When the tongues of flame are in-folded. Into the crowned knot of fire. And the fire and the rose are one. -- T.S. Eliot, “Little Gidding” (1942) Click to download chapters in .pdf format: frontmatter. chapter1.
JOURNALISM AND DEMOCRACY: DOES IT MATTER HOW WELL THE 2 Our purpose was not mainly to create a public website on the war, but rather to explore how better to link journalism and political theory. We looked for texts in democratic WHYTHENDIDDANTEDAMNFRANCESCA? PERHAPSHEWASTHINKINGLIK5 A 338 PHILOSOPHYANDLITERATURE belowdesire" (Inf. v, 39). Therefore, it is a sin is to favor poetry over philosophy. Socrates bans thepoetsfromthe ideal state becausetheirworkcan PETER LEVINE: IDEOLOGY: PROS AND CONS ideology gives us roughly correct answers while lowering the cost of political participation, thereby allowing poor and poorly educated people to participate. ideology is the only way to solve "voting cycles". I would say No if: there is not a small set of coherent and true principles. it is possible to make judgments individually, and PETER LEVINE: THE BRADLEY REPORT: E PLURIBUS UNUM heading north | Main | college and kids ». June 24, 2008 The Bradley Report: E Pluribus Unum. I just read the Bradley Foundation report on America's National Identity, entitled E Pluribus Unum.It argues that "America is facing an identity crisis," because we do not know enough information about our founders; students are not "taught about America's great heroes, dramatic achievements andPETERLEVINE.WS
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THE UK IN A POLYCENTRIC EUROPE « PETER LEVINE I've had deep connections to the UK since childhood and have always been committed to the idea of Britain in Europe. I believe that the UK has been much better off as a part of the EU, while the EU could benefit from particular British perspectives and institutions. For those reasons, Brexit saddened me. However, I also believe in polycentricity. As a descriptive theory of the world, it says EXPLORE EQUITY AND INEQUITY IN THE USA « PETER LEVINE On the Tufts Equity Research website is a user-friendly tool that allows anyone to explore data from our May 2021 national survey. The tool requires no specialized background or vocabulary to use. You can just select pairs of variables and see the results. For instance, I looked at the proportion of Americans who report that other people act afraid of them because of their identity. The DEBATING POLITICS IN A PANDEMIC « PETER LEVINE A few months ago, I published Levine, P. (2020). Theorizing Democracy in a Pandemic, Democratic Theory, 7(2), 134-142, with the following abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic raises questions about the future of democracy and civil society. Some recent predictions seem to use the suffering to score points in ongoing political arguments. As a better example of how to describe the future during a SIX TYPES OF CLAIM: DESCRIPTIVE, CAUSAL, CONCEPTUAL Any serious (non-fiction) thinker makes claims, supports them with warrants, expects each claim to be challenged, and will withdraw a claim if the challenge proves valid. However, people make many types of claims, with many kinds of warrant. Here is a chart that suggests six different kinds of claim (descriptive, causal, conceptual, classificatory, interpretive, and normative) with examples of PETER LEVINE: IDEOLOGY: PROS AND CONS ideology gives us roughly correct answers while lowering the cost of political participation, thereby allowing poor and poorly educated people to participate. ideology is the only way to solve "voting cycles". I would say No if: there is not a small set of coherent and true principles. it is possible to make judgments individually, and PETER LEVINE: WAR AND PEACE: AN ETHICAL INTERPRETATION worthless art? | Main | Strengthening Our Nation's Democracy » October 6, 2009 War and Peace: an ethical interpretation The moral backbone of Tolstoy's War & Peace seems to be a distinction, or maybe a continuum. Simple, authentic virtue is at one end, and complexity, affectation, and vice are on the other: PETER LEVINE: THE JANE ADDAMS SCHOOL FOR DEMOCRACY People from the University of Minnesota, the College of St. Catharine's, and the neighborhood created the Jane Addams School in 1996, after talking at length about how a PETER LEVINE: WHY STUDY REAL-LIFE DELIBERATION some things a candidate could say | Main | before Amazon » September 1, 2004 why study real-life deliberation. John Gastil and I are co-editing a book, probably to be called The Handbook of Deliberation.Most of the chapters describe particular processes that bring diverse people together to discuss and reach judgments aboutpublic issues.
PETER LEVINE: IDEOLOGICAL DIVERSITY ON CAMPUSES an effort to add civic questions to the debate | Main | nationalism as the enlargement of human sympathy ». September 30, 2008 ideological diversity on campuses. On one of my recent visits to a college campus, I met a bunch of students who began by telling me all the excellent ways they are involved in civic and political affairs. PETER LEVINE: THE "FIT" BETWEEN CULTURES AND THE LABOR MARKET putting philosophy back in developmental pyschology | Main | protest, now and then ». February 19, 2007 the "fit" between cultures and the labor market. Poverty and privilege reproduce themselves.PETER LEVINE
Peter Levine – A Blog for Civic Renewal. I did this analysis, which was released today New nationwide survey by Tufts University researchers finds that parents credit schools with limiting academic harms but see damage to social relationships.THE ANACHRONIST
The Anachronist – A novel and its world. In the year 1596, Anna is about to be burned at the stake. As the constable prepares to light the fire below her, she can do nothing but seek a solution in her own memory and imagination. The Anachronist is a game in which you make choices that determine the outcome. By increasing Anna’s knowledge THE LEGITIMACY OF LABOR UNIONS LEVINE MACRO1.DOC 7/3/01 4:30 PM 528 Hofstra Labor & Employment Law Journal [Vol. 18:527 realize . . . freedom of association and the effective recognition of the right to collective bargaining.”2 But federal and state laws also impose many limitations on the behavior of labor unions, which are weak in the CONSEQUENCES OF PARTICULARISM Consequences of “Particularism” Peter Levine “No philosophy, no analysis, no aphorism, be it ever so profound, can compare in intensity and richness of meaning with a properly narratedTONGUES OF FIRE
A novel by Peter Levine (2000) All manner of thing shall be well. When the tongues of flame are in-folded. Into the crowned knot of fire. And the fire and the rose are one. -- T.S. Eliot, “Little Gidding” (1942) Click to download chapters in .pdf format: frontmatter. chapter1.
JOURNALISM AND DEMOCRACY: DOES IT MATTER HOW WELL THE 2 Our purpose was not mainly to create a public website on the war, but rather to explore how better to link journalism and political theory. We looked for texts in democratic WHYTHENDIDDANTEDAMNFRANCESCA? PERHAPSHEWASTHINKINGLIK5 A 338 PHILOSOPHYANDLITERATURE belowdesire" (Inf. v, 39). Therefore, it is a sin is to favor poetry over philosophy. Socrates bans thepoetsfromthe ideal state becausetheirworkcan PETER LEVINE: IDEOLOGY: PROS AND CONS ideology gives us roughly correct answers while lowering the cost of political participation, thereby allowing poor and poorly educated people to participate. ideology is the only way to solve "voting cycles". I would say No if: there is not a small set of coherent and true principles. it is possible to make judgments individually, and PETER LEVINE: THE BRADLEY REPORT: E PLURIBUS UNUM heading north | Main | college and kids ». June 24, 2008 The Bradley Report: E Pluribus Unum. I just read the Bradley Foundation report on America's National Identity, entitled E Pluribus Unum.It argues that "America is facing an identity crisis," because we do not know enough information about our founders; students are not "taught about America's great heroes, dramatic achievements andPETERLEVINE.WS
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Peter Levine – A Blog for Civic Renewal. I did this analysis, which was released today New nationwide survey by Tufts University researchers finds that parents credit schools with limiting academic harms but see damage to social relationships.THE ANACHRONIST
The Anachronist – A novel and its world. In the year 1596, Anna is about to be burned at the stake. As the constable prepares to light the fire below her, she can do nothing but seek a solution in her own memory and imagination. The Anachronist is a game in which you make choices that determine the outcome. By increasing Anna’s knowledge THE LEGITIMACY OF LABOR UNIONS LEVINE MACRO1.DOC 7/3/01 4:30 PM 528 Hofstra Labor & Employment Law Journal [Vol. 18:527 realize . . . freedom of association and the effective recognition of the right to collective bargaining.”2 But federal and state laws also impose many limitations on the behavior of labor unions, which are weak in the CONSEQUENCES OF PARTICULARISM Consequences of “Particularism” Peter Levine “No philosophy, no analysis, no aphorism, be it ever so profound, can compare in intensity and richness of meaning with a properly narratedTONGUES OF FIRE
A novel by Peter Levine (2000) All manner of thing shall be well. When the tongues of flame are in-folded. Into the crowned knot of fire. And the fire and the rose are one. -- T.S. Eliot, “Little Gidding” (1942) Click to download chapters in .pdf format: frontmatter. chapter1.
JOURNALISM AND DEMOCRACY: DOES IT MATTER HOW WELL THE 2 Our purpose was not mainly to create a public website on the war, but rather to explore how better to link journalism and political theory. We looked for texts in democratic WHYTHENDIDDANTEDAMNFRANCESCA? PERHAPSHEWASTHINKINGLIK5 A 338 PHILOSOPHYANDLITERATURE belowdesire" (Inf. v, 39). Therefore, it is a sin is to favor poetry over philosophy. Socrates bans thepoetsfromthe ideal state becausetheirworkcan PETER LEVINE: IDEOLOGY: PROS AND CONS ideology gives us roughly correct answers while lowering the cost of political participation, thereby allowing poor and poorly educated people to participate. ideology is the only way to solve "voting cycles". I would say No if: there is not a small set of coherent and true principles. it is possible to make judgments individually, and PETER LEVINE: THE BRADLEY REPORT: E PLURIBUS UNUM heading north | Main | college and kids ». June 24, 2008 The Bradley Report: E Pluribus Unum. I just read the Bradley Foundation report on America's National Identity, entitled E Pluribus Unum.It argues that "America is facing an identity crisis," because we do not know enough information about our founders; students are not "taught about America's great heroes, dramatic achievements andPETERLEVINE.WS
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I have been involved in such efforts–for instance, helping to write the federal assessment of civics, and playing a role in generating voter turnout data for most US colleges and universities. These are purposive efforts, undertaken to change the world for specific reasons. They reflect people’s values and strategies. DEBATING POLITICS IN A PANDEMIC « PETER LEVINE A few months ago, I published Levine, P. (2020). Theorizing Democracy in a Pandemic, Democratic Theory, 7(2), 134-142, with the following abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic raises questions about the future of democracy and civil society. Some recent predictions seem to use the suffering to score points in ongoing political arguments. As a better example of how to describe the future during a EXPLORE EQUITY AND INEQUITY IN THE USA « PETER LEVINE On the Tufts Equity Research website is a user-friendly tool that allows anyone to explore data from our May 2021 national survey. The tool requires no specialized background or vocabulary to use. You can just select pairs of variables and see the results. For instance, I looked at the proportion of Americans who report that other people act afraid of them because of their identity. The DEMOCRACY’S MOMENT In his day, Alexis de Tocqueville attributed the vitality of our democracy to citizens’ work in building the 19th-century “commons”: free, local, public assets such as hospitals, churches, parks, seminaries, and schools (Tocqueville 1954, II, 114). Today the Internet is a promising venue for such public work. ENTROPY: A POEM BY PETER LEVINE Entropy: a poem by Peter LevineABOUT BLOGS
"Blog" is short for "Weblog"—and a Weblog is a very frequently updated Webpage, often a kind of public diary. One person can be solely responsible for a blog, or several people can collaborate to produce it, or it can be open to anyone to post messages. PETER LEVINE: SEAMUS HEANEY'S BEOWULF The dragon who finally kills Beowulf has found a treasure from a distant past: There were many other. heirlooms heaped inside the earth-house, because long ago, with deliberate care, somebody now forgotten. had buried the riches of a high-born race. in this ancientcache.
PETER LEVINE: WAR AND PEACE: AN ETHICAL INTERPRETATION worthless art? | Main | Strengthening Our Nation's Democracy » October 6, 2009 War and Peace: an ethical interpretation The moral backbone of Tolstoy's War & Peace seems to be a distinction, or maybe a continuum. Simple, authentic virtue is at one end, and complexity, affectation, and vice are on the other: PETER LEVINE: WHY STUDY REAL-LIFE DELIBERATION some things a candidate could say | Main | before Amazon » September 1, 2004 why study real-life deliberation. John Gastil and I are co-editing a book, probably to be called The Handbook of Deliberation.Most of the chapters describe particular processes that bring diverse people together to discuss and reach judgments aboutpublic issues.
PETER LEVINE: THE JANE ADDAMS SCHOOL FOR DEMOCRACY People from the University of Minnesota, the College of St. Catharine's, and the neighborhood created the Jane Addams School in 1996, after talking at length about how aPETER LEVINE
Peter Levine – A Blog for Civic Renewal. I did this analysis, which was released today New nationwide survey by Tufts University researchers finds that parents credit schools with limiting academic harms but see damage to social relationships.THE ANACHRONIST
The Anachronist – A novel and its world. In the year 1596, Anna is about to be burned at the stake. As the constable prepares to light the fire below her, she can do nothing but seek a solution in her own memory and imagination. The Anachronist is a game in which you make choices that determine the outcome. By increasing Anna’s knowledgeTONGUES OF FIRE
A novel by Peter Levine (2000) All manner of thing shall be well. When the tongues of flame are in-folded. Into the crowned knot of fire. And the fire and the rose are one. -- T.S. Eliot, “Little Gidding” (1942) Click to download chapters in .pdf format: frontmatter. chapter1.
THE LEGITIMACY OF LABOR UNIONS LEVINE MACRO1.DOC 7/3/01 4:30 PM 528 Hofstra Labor & Employment Law Journal [Vol. 18:527 realize . . . freedom of association and the effective recognition of the right to collective bargaining.”2 But federal and state laws also impose many limitations on the behavior of labor unions, which are weak in the CONSEQUENCES OF PARTICULARISM Consequences of “Particularism” Peter Levine “No philosophy, no analysis, no aphorism, be it ever so profound, can compare in intensity and richness of meaning with a properly narrated JOURNALISM AND DEMOCRACY: DOES IT MATTER HOW WELL THE 2 Our purpose was not mainly to create a public website on the war, but rather to explore how better to link journalism and political theory. We looked for texts in democratic WHYTHENDIDDANTEDAMNFRANCESCA? PERHAPSHEWASTHINKINGLIK5 A 338 PHILOSOPHYANDLITERATURE belowdesire" (Inf. v, 39). Therefore, it is a sin is to favor poetry over philosophy. Socrates bans thepoetsfromthe ideal state becausetheirworkcan PETER LEVINE: THE BRADLEY REPORT: E PLURIBUS UNUM heading north | Main | college and kids ». June 24, 2008 The Bradley Report: E Pluribus Unum. I just read the Bradley Foundation report on America's National Identity, entitled E Pluribus Unum.It argues that "America is facing an identity crisis," because we do not know enough information about our founders; students are not "taught about America's great heroes, dramatic achievements andIX - PETERLEVINE.WS
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Peter Levine – A Blog for Civic Renewal. I did this analysis, which was released today New nationwide survey by Tufts University researchers finds that parents credit schools with limiting academic harms but see damage to social relationships.THE ANACHRONIST
The Anachronist – A novel and its world. In the year 1596, Anna is about to be burned at the stake. As the constable prepares to light the fire below her, she can do nothing but seek a solution in her own memory and imagination. The Anachronist is a game in which you make choices that determine the outcome. By increasing Anna’s knowledgeTONGUES OF FIRE
A novel by Peter Levine (2000) All manner of thing shall be well. When the tongues of flame are in-folded. Into the crowned knot of fire. And the fire and the rose are one. -- T.S. Eliot, “Little Gidding” (1942) Click to download chapters in .pdf format: frontmatter. chapter1.
THE LEGITIMACY OF LABOR UNIONS LEVINE MACRO1.DOC 7/3/01 4:30 PM 528 Hofstra Labor & Employment Law Journal [Vol. 18:527 realize . . . freedom of association and the effective recognition of the right to collective bargaining.”2 But federal and state laws also impose many limitations on the behavior of labor unions, which are weak in the CONSEQUENCES OF PARTICULARISM Consequences of “Particularism” Peter Levine “No philosophy, no analysis, no aphorism, be it ever so profound, can compare in intensity and richness of meaning with a properly narrated JOURNALISM AND DEMOCRACY: DOES IT MATTER HOW WELL THE 2 Our purpose was not mainly to create a public website on the war, but rather to explore how better to link journalism and political theory. We looked for texts in democratic WHYTHENDIDDANTEDAMNFRANCESCA? PERHAPSHEWASTHINKINGLIK5 A 338 PHILOSOPHYANDLITERATURE belowdesire" (Inf. v, 39). Therefore, it is a sin is to favor poetry over philosophy. Socrates bans thepoetsfromthe ideal state becausetheirworkcan PETER LEVINE: THE BRADLEY REPORT: E PLURIBUS UNUM heading north | Main | college and kids ». June 24, 2008 The Bradley Report: E Pluribus Unum. I just read the Bradley Foundation report on America's National Identity, entitled E Pluribus Unum.It argues that "America is facing an identity crisis," because we do not know enough information about our founders; students are not "taught about America's great heroes, dramatic achievements andIX - PETERLEVINE.WS
Tongues of Fire, p. 143 the journey easier. Before, you had to wade.” They walked in single file: Egon, then Madison, then Marta. The bridges swayed under their combined weight.PETERLEVINE.WS
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I have been involved in such efforts–for instance, helping to write the federal assessment of civics, and playing a role in generating voter turnout data for most US colleges and universities. These are purposive efforts, undertaken to change the world for specific reasons. They reflect people’s values and strategies. EXPLORE EQUITY AND INEQUITY IN THE USA « PETER LEVINE On the Tufts Equity Research website is a user-friendly tool that allows anyone to explore data from our May 2021 national survey. The tool requires no specialized background or vocabulary to use. You can just select pairs of variables and see the results. For instance, I looked at the proportion of Americans who report that other people act afraid of them because of their identity. The DEBATING POLITICS IN A PANDEMIC « PETER LEVINE A few months ago, I published Levine, P. (2020). Theorizing Democracy in a Pandemic, Democratic Theory, 7(2), 134-142, with the following abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic raises questions about the future of democracy and civil society. Some recent predictions seem to use the suffering to score points in ongoing political arguments. As a better example of how to describe the future during a PETER LEVINE: SEAMUS HEANEY'S BEOWULF The dragon who finally kills Beowulf has found a treasure from a distant past: There were many other. heirlooms heaped inside the earth-house, because long ago, with deliberate care, somebody now forgotten. had buried the riches of a high-born race. in this ancientcache.
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Tongues of Fire, p. 143 the journey easier. Before, you had to wade.” They walked in single file: Egon, then Madison, then Marta. The bridges swayed under their combined weight. PETER LEVINE: WAR AND PEACE: AN ETHICAL INTERPRETATION worthless art? | Main | Strengthening Our Nation's Democracy » October 6, 2009 War and Peace: an ethical interpretation The moral backbone of Tolstoy's War & Peace seems to be a distinction, or maybe a continuum. Simple, authentic virtue is at one end, and complexity, affectation, and vice are on the other: PETER LEVINE: A DEFENSE OF CIVIC EDUCATION « Richard Clarke, from an ethical perspective | Main | the Frist speech in historical context ». March 26, 2004 a defense of civic education. James Murphy, a Dartmouth political scientist, wrote an article that was very critical of k-12 civic education in last fall's Education Next.That journal then published a shortened version of my reply to Prof. Murphy in its winter issue. PETER LEVINE: "DATA-MINING" FINANCIAL AID RECORDS I can see how "mining" loan applications might actually be a useful tool for national security purposes. It would be good to know, for example, if a bunch of students who were already under some degree of suspicion all sought financial aid to attend flight schools.We could debate whether one has a reasonable expectation of privacy when disclosing information to the government, whether data PETER LEVINE: WHY THE COMMONS IS NOT FOR COMMUNISTS Seamus Heaney's Beowulf | Main | what's going on at the office ». June 2, 2005 why the commons is not for communists "The commons" is composed of our shared assets: the earth's atmosphere, oceans, and water-cycle; basic scientific knowledge (which cannot be patented); the heritage of human creativity, including folklore and the whole works of Plato, Shakespeare and every other long-deadPETERLEVINE.WS
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Peter Levine – A Blog for Civic Renewal. I did this analysis, which was released today New nationwide survey by Tufts University researchers finds that parents credit schools with limiting academic harms but see damage to social relationships.THE ANACHRONIST
In the year 1596, Anna is about to be burned at the stake. As the constable prepares to light the fire below her, she can do nothing but seek a solution in her own memory and imagination. DEMOCRACY’S MOMENT Can the Internet Rescue Democracy? Toward an On-line Commons . byPeter Levine
THE LEGITIMACY OF LABOR UNIONS LEVINE MACRO1.DOC 7/3/01 4:30 PM 528 Hofstra Labor & Employment Law Journal [Vol. 18:527 realize . . . freedom of association and the effective recognition of the right to collective bargaining.”2 But federal and state laws also impose many limitations on the behavior of labor unions, which are weak in the CONSEQUENCES OF PARTICULARISM Consequences of “Particularism” Peter Levine “No philosophy, no analysis, no aphorism, be it ever so profound, can compare in intensity and richness of meaning with a properly narratedTONGUES OF FIRE
Tongues of Fire. A novel by Peter Levine (2000) All manner of thing shall be well When the tongues of flame are in-folded Into the crownedknot of fire
WHYTHENDIDDANTEDAMNFRANCESCA? PERHAPSHEWASTHINKINGLIK5 A 338 PHILOSOPHYANDLITERATURE belowdesire" (Inf. v, 39). Therefore, it is a sin is to favor poetry over philosophy. Socrates bans thepoetsfromthe ideal state becausetheirworkcan JOURNALISM AND DEMOCRACY: DOES IT MATTER HOW WELL THE 2 Our purpose was not mainly to create a public website on the war, but rather to explore how better to link journalism and political theory. We looked for texts in democratic PETER LEVINE: IDEOLOGY: PROS AND CONS For example, Ayn Randians have a very small set of assumptions—maybe just one. Their belief that individual freedom is the only moral value generates a very wide range of judgments, not only about politics and economics, but also about religion, the virtues, and aesthetics.PETERLEVINE.WS
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Peter Levine – A Blog for Civic Renewal. I did this analysis, which was released today New nationwide survey by Tufts University researchers finds that parents credit schools with limiting academic harms but see damage to social relationships.THE ANACHRONIST
In the year 1596, Anna is about to be burned at the stake. As the constable prepares to light the fire below her, she can do nothing but seek a solution in her own memory and imagination. DEMOCRACY’S MOMENT Can the Internet Rescue Democracy? Toward an On-line Commons . byPeter Levine
THE LEGITIMACY OF LABOR UNIONS LEVINE MACRO1.DOC 7/3/01 4:30 PM 528 Hofstra Labor & Employment Law Journal [Vol. 18:527 realize . . . freedom of association and the effective recognition of the right to collective bargaining.”2 But federal and state laws also impose many limitations on the behavior of labor unions, which are weak in the CONSEQUENCES OF PARTICULARISM Consequences of “Particularism” Peter Levine “No philosophy, no analysis, no aphorism, be it ever so profound, can compare in intensity and richness of meaning with a properly narratedTONGUES OF FIRE
Tongues of Fire. A novel by Peter Levine (2000) All manner of thing shall be well When the tongues of flame are in-folded Into the crownedknot of fire
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Peter Levine – A Blog for Civic Renewal. I did this analysis, which was released today New nationwide survey by Tufts University researchers finds that parents credit schools with limiting academic harms but see damage to social relationships.THE ANACHRONIST
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Peter Levine – A Blog for Civic Renewal. I did this analysis, which was released today New nationwide survey by Tufts University researchers finds that parents credit schools with limiting academic harms but see damage to social relationships.THE ANACHRONIST
The Anachronist – A novel and its world. In the year 1596, Anna is about to be burned at the stake. As the constable prepares to light the fire below her, she can do nothing but seek a solution in her own memory and imagination. The Anachronist is a game in which you make choices that determine the outcome. By increasing Anna’s knowledge DEMOCRACY’S MOMENT In his day, Alexis de Tocqueville attributed the vitality of our democracy to citizens’ work in building the 19th-century “commons”: free, local, public assets such as hospitals, churches, parks, seminaries, and schools (Tocqueville 1954, II, 114). Today the Internet is a promising venue for such public work. THE LEGITIMACY OF LABOR UNIONS LEVINE MACRO1.DOC 7/3/01 4:30 PM 528 Hofstra Labor & Employment Law Journal [Vol. 18:527 realize . . . freedom of association and the effective recognition of the right to collective bargaining.”2 But federal and state laws also impose many limitations on the behavior of labor unions, which are weak in theTONGUES OF FIRE
A novel by Peter Levine (2000) All manner of thing shall be well. When the tongues of flame are in-folded. Into the crowned knot of fire. And the fire and the rose are one. -- T.S. Eliot, “Little Gidding” (1942) Click to download chapters in .pdf format: frontmatter. chapter1.
CONSEQUENCES OF PARTICULARISM Consequences of “Particularism” Peter Levine “No philosophy, no analysis, no aphorism, be it ever so profound, can compare in intensity and richness of meaning with a properly narrated WHYTHENDIDDANTEDAMNFRANCESCA? PERHAPSHEWASTHINKINGLIK5 A 338 PHILOSOPHYANDLITERATURE belowdesire" (Inf. v, 39). Therefore, it is a sin is to favor poetry over philosophy. Socrates bans thepoetsfromthe ideal state becausetheirworkcan PETER LEVINE: IDEOLOGY: PROS AND CONS ideology gives us roughly correct answers while lowering the cost of political participation, thereby allowing poor and poorly educated people to participate. ideology is the only way to solve "voting cycles". I would say No if: there is not a small set of coherent and true principles. it is possible to make judgments individually, and JOURNALISM AND DEMOCRACY: DOES IT MATTER HOW WELL THE 6 was providing substantial support to al Qaeda, that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction (or a major WMD program) on the eve of the invasion, and that world opinion is largely PETER LEVINE: THE BRADLEY REPORT: E PLURIBUS UNUM heading north | Main | college and kids ». June 24, 2008 The Bradley Report: E Pluribus Unum. I just read the Bradley Foundation report on America's National Identity, entitled E Pluribus Unum.It argues that "America is facing an identity crisis," because we do not know enough information about our founders; students are not "taught about America's great heroes, dramatic achievements and DEBATING POLITICS IN A PANDEMIC « PETER LEVINE A few months ago, I published Levine, P. (2020). Theorizing Democracy in a Pandemic, Democratic Theory, 7(2), 134-142, with the following abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic raises questions about the future of democracy and civil society. Some recent predictions seem to use the suffering to score points in ongoing political arguments. As a better example of how to describe the future during aPETER LEVINE: BIO
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A recent paper entitled “A Complex Systems Approach to the Study of Ideology”* presents a theory much like the one I have begun to develop in a series of posts on this blogand other work.
The authors write
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> If we construe ideologies as complex systems, we have (at least) two > levels of systems embedded in each other. At the individual level, > the elements are ideas, beliefs, and values, whose interactions give > rise to a person’s understanding of society, which in turn guides > individual political behavior. At the group level, the elements are > individual minds whose interactions give rise to discourses and > power dynamics, which in turn guide collective action and societal > change. We thus conceive of an ideological system as a network of > minds, where minds are networks of concepts. Fig 1 illustrates their model. Compare a diagram of the ideas held by my undergraduate class some years ago (with each student’s ideas in a different color): The authors of “A Complex Systems Approach” also diagram the ideology of the Tea Party Movement, using the qualitative analysis in a well-known article by Vanessa Williamson, Theda Skocpol, and John Coggin as theirmaterial.
Their diagram of the Tea Party is not heavily documented, but it demonstrates a payoff of their method. A paradox about the Tea Party is that they were powerful opponents of Obamacare yet passionate defenders of Medicare. The authors of “A Complex Systems Approach” explain this pattern by arguing that “representations of social programs are connected on one hand with representations of the self as a hard worker contributing to society and, hence, deserving of the government check …, but on other hand with the highly negative representations of government, spending, and taxation common to conservative ideologies.” Each idea and link in the Tea Party ideology is consistent enough in its own way, and the overall system generates a combination of policy positions that only seem inconsistent if you try to place the whole ideology on one linear spectrum from pro- to anti-welfare. As a network of ideas, the ideology is as well structured as many others are. This is not an endorsement, since some of the specific nodes in the Tea Party’s network are objectionable by my lights. But a complex systems model offers a more refined analysis. The word “complex” is used loosely and in various ways, but the authors of “A Complex Systems Approach” mean systems that exhibit “emergence, nonlinearity (disproportionality of cause and effect), path dependency, and multiple equilibria.” In the Tea Party ideology, for example, resentment of groups perceived as undeserving (which, in turn, is a racialized perception) has a powerful effect because of its location in the whole network. The Tea Party can land in several places (libertarian or #MAGA) that reflect multipleequilibria.
I find it intuitive that our ideas are structured and that the structures matter apart from the lists of individual ideas we hold. I acknowledge that we are not necessarily _conscious_ of the whole structures of our own thought. Self-consciousness requires critical introspection and/or interaction with other people, and it is alwayspartial.
However, I do believe we are conscious of portions of the network at any given time–not just the individual ideas, but the connections among them. Much of our discourse is about mini-structures of ideas, e.g., “I think _this_ because of _that_.” Methods that reveal structures of ideas and links are alternatives to the family of methodologies that use latent variables to “explain” lists of specific beliefs, as in Moral Foundations Theory. I believe that such methods assume rather than demonstrate that human beings are driven by a few unconscious psychological traits. Although such explanations offer some insight, they should be combined with methods that allow us to see how people and groups build more complex structures. This is why I am excited to see this new paper and the work that underlies it. * Homer-Dixon, Thomas, Jonathan Leader Maynard, Matto Mildenberger, Manjana Milkoreit, Steven J. Mock, Stephen Quilley, Tobias Schröder, & Paul Thagard. “A Complex Systems Approach to the Study of Ideology: Cognitive-Affective Structures and the Dynamics of Belief Systems.” _Journal of Social and Political Psychology_ , 1.1 (2013): 337-363. Web. 4 May. 2020. I had been previously influenced by Thagard’s work although I have not made the detailed study of it that it deserves. See also: judgment in a world of power and institutions: outline of a view ; from I to we: an outline of a theory ; an alternative to Moral Foundations Theory ; etc. ` This entry was posted in Uncategorizedon May 4, 2020
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One year ago, I posted this : Most trees have leafed out for two or three days. Each leaf unfolding in place to fill its space, green; But the trees that flowered are wilting now, Bold blooms shrinking to leave more space between, Dwindling to stipples along each bough. Superimposed: a lacy screen, damascened, Patches on a slate background--the dripping sky-- Grey except at some hidden place where a break Must let the sun flood _up_ to certain high Shingles, a wire, a spire that's a streak Of brilliant white. All silent, a still sheen, Sheer, stretched thin to fade or end in a blaze. It was a different time. Also a different place: I wrote it in our usual home in Cambridge, MA, but we have been sheltering for weeks in West Tisbury on Martha’s Vineyard. I will say one thing for the poem: it is precisely described. “Wire” and “spire” are convenient rhymes, and they probably look forced, but I actually watched the slender white spire of Memorial Church and a telephone wire, both lit from below by a band of setting sun breaking through low clouds. (Other poems on this site. ) This entry was posted in Uncategorizedon April 30, 2020
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I am sharing this survey invitation by request and would encourage you to send it to middle-school or high-school students you know, including those in schools or programs where you work (if their ownpolicies allow).
_I would like to invite you to participate in a survey on how adolescents are understanding and processing what COVID-19 means to humanity and their societies, as well as thinking about themselves, their societies, and their future trajectories and opportunities during the COVID-19 global crisis. I want to know more about your perspective on what is going on, and your participation is valuable to helping better understand what impacts the changes related to COVID-19 have on young people._ _The study is being conducted by myself, Gabriel Velez, with the approval of the Marquette University Institutional Review Board. You are eligible to participate in this study because you are a middle or high school student._ _If you decide to participate in this study, you will be asked to complete an online survey of approximately 20 to 30 minutes. Your answers will be recorded, but they will only be connected to your name if you provide us with your name to be contacted for a follow up survey. Your responses will not be shared with your school. At the end of the survey, we will ask for your email address if you are willing to participate in a follow up interview with a researcher._ _In order to participate in this survey, you will have to give your informed consent. If you are under 18 years old, you will also need your parents to indicate that they give you permission to participate. When you click the link to the survey, the first page will be for you to read and agree to. The second page will then be for your caregiver, and they should read it over and click that they give permission for you to participate._ _To access the online survey and participate, please click this link: https://marquette.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_e52JGB5TPllRpSB_ _Remember, this is completely voluntary. Your decision to participate or not will not be known by anyone at your school or affect your relationship with your school or with any school personnel._ _You can choose to be in the study or not. If you’d like to participate or have any questions about the study, please email Gabriel Velez (Gabriel.velez@marquette.edu)._ _Thank you very much. Sincerely,Gabriel Velez
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MONEY SHOULD FLOW FROM NEW YORK TO FLORIDA1 comment
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This is just a salvo in the current debate about whether the feds should send money to states: > “It’s not fair to the taxpayers of Florida. We sit here, we live > within our means, and then New York, Illinois, California and other > states don’t. And we’re supposed to go bail them out? That’s > not right,” GOP Sen. Rick Scott tells poolers of sending more > money to states— Burgess Everett (@burgessev) April 27, 2020>
The Rockefeller Institute calculates the net flow of money from state to state on a per capita basis. Note that net money flows from New York and Illinois (although not actually from California) toward Sen. Scott’s Florida (h/t Jonathan Cohn).
But this is as it should be. The progressive position should be that people in the band of states from Pennsylvania to Arizona _deserve_ support from states like New York, Massachusetts, and New Jersey. It is not a matter of noblesse oblige or the kindness of Yankees. Wealth is concentrated in places like Manhattan and Boston. These places are home to many rich individuals and concentrations of organized capital. Progressives believe that concentrated capital is problematic. At a minimum, it distorts power. At the worst, it is exploitative, expanding at the expense of people in Alabama or New Mexico. People in those states have a right to a larger share of the national wealth. It’s OK to make fun of conservative politicians from recipient states who won’t acknowledge that they benefit from federalredistribution.
It’s important to think about why people in recipient states often vote against redistribution while people from supplier states may votefor it.
There is also a troubling paradox that the political party that is at least mildly more favorable to redistribution draws so much of its votes from states that lose out from redistribution. From William Jennings Bryan to Lyndon Baines Johnson, the states that wanted a strong federal role in the economy were net recipients of federal aid, and they viewed Wall Street as their enemy. Now the Senate Democratic Leader, the nation’s most prominent Democratic governor, and the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee all directly represent WallStreet.
These are paradoxes and conundrums, but the best response is not to object to the interstate flow of money, to mock Red State politicians for mischaracterizing it, or to ask people in poorer states to be more grateful for the help they get from the north. The right response is to reinforce public support for the social contract that _rightly_ sends money from Massachusetts to Mississippi. See also does the Left care about Alabama? ; white working class alienation from government ; an expert class and the grassroots ; defining equity andequality .
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THE NEW NAEP CIVICS RESULTSno comments
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Today, the National Assessment Governing Board released new results for social studies subjects from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). EdWeek says,
“8th Graders Don’t Know Much About History, National Exam Shows.” Betsy DeVos calls the findings “stark and inexcusable.” History and geography scores fell, although I don’t know if I’d agree with EdWeek’s Stephen Sawchuk and Sarah D. Sparks that “Eighth graders’ grasp of key topics in history have plummeted.”Here
are the median history scores over time:*
I would probably say that history scores “declined to a significantly significant degree compared to 2014, meaning that the change from 2014-18 is unlikely to reflect sampling bias.” The differences between 2018 and all other yearsare
within the margin of error and therefore may not be improvements ordeclines at all.
Civics is my own field of interest, and I was one of the designers of the NAEP Civics Assessment instrument. The results for Civics were flat. (Unless you want to say that they “plummeted” by one point.) The NAEP is extraordinarily useful for analyzing differences in scores by demographic group and for understanding how educational experiences (e.g., taking an 8th grade civics course) relate to outcomes. Unless you have worked with the dedicated folks at the Educational Testing Service and the National Assessment Governing Board, you cannot imagine how careful they are about test-design and implementation or how complex the whole process is. However, as in the past, I would like to offer these caveats about the NAEP results and the surrounding commentary. First, as noted above, the changes are subtle, and some are within the margin of error. There is no evidence here of dramatic decline. Second, the definitions of “proficient” and “advanced” are basically arbitrary. The 1998 designers chose scores that would count as “proficient,” based on their own judgment. Based on the data from that year, they said that just 22% of American 8th graders were proficient. They must have been aware that they would communicate amessage of crisis.
The subsequent Assessments have been normed to the 1998 instrument. Roughly speaking, if we drafted an instrument that indicated a major improvement, it would probably not be fielded as such, because the high scores in the pilot phase would suggest that it was an invalid measure–the questions must be too easy. Therefore, it isn’t really news that the proficiency level is in the _neighborhood_ of 25%. That is how the test is designed. This is not to say that we can’t gradually boost it to 30% or higher if we make a lot of progress in classrooms. But you should understand why the numbers could not be much higher. The judgment that most kids are not proficient is subject to debate. If you look at the actual questions and how many 8th graders got each one right, you may conclude that most students are below proficient. Or you may think that the questions are surprisingly hard and that we are expecting a lot from 13-year-olds. For instance, 50% answered this item right: _The United States Congress can pass a bill even if the President disagrees with the bill because_ * _Congress must make sure that the needs of all citizens are met_ * _Congress can make laws more quickly when it does not have to involve the President_ * _Congress usually knows more about what the laws mean than thePresident does_
* _Congress is the primary legislative power of the government_ Is 50% a terrible result, or not too bad? That is a matter of judgment and expectations, not statistics. Third, the NAEP measures some things but not others. The Civics assessment includes many items about the structure of the US government–which branch or level has what authority. It _excludes_ current events, value-commitments (such as patriotism or commitment to equality), items about social issues, detailed questions about civic institutions outside of government (e.g., What does a PTA do?), items about specific state and local governments, and measures of students’ civic activity outside of school. Finally, it is difficult to separate reading from civics, particularly at the 4th and 8th grade levels. I don’t think anyone does that better than the NAEP does, but it’s an intrinsic challenge. A kid who hasn’t actually learned anything specific about the US government but is used to reading advanced texts–_The Lord of the Ring_s, for example–could glean a lot of correct answers based on the meaning of words like “primary” and “legislative” in the example above. A different kid who has dutifully learned some specific civics content might be thrown by the language of the Assessment, especially when the prompts contain longer passages. It is true that literacy is a civic asset and that people who can do a lot with words are better prepared for civic life. However, if we think there is a separate domain of civic learning–as I do–then measuring it with a written instrument that isn’t confounded with literacy is a challenge. Overall, I believe there is valuable information in the NAEP (and it’s important for Congress to fund it regularly). But the headlines are hyped. The data show evidence of _stability_ in the relatively narrow set of outcomes that the Assessment measures, with the caveat that the test is designed to be stable over time. If we want to improve civics, we should focus mainly on what helps various kinds of kids to learn the various domains of content that are on the test–plus the important outcomes that the NAEP does not measure atall.
See also: deep in the thickets of test design (2011), some surprising results from the 2010 NAEP Civics assessment (2011), what did young voters know and understand in 2012? (2012), effects of debate, discussion, and simulation in k-12 schools, and persistent civic gaps (2013), CIRCLE’s release on today’s Civics results (2015), This entry was posted in advocating civic educationon April 23, 2020
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