Peter Levine

AI as Satanic peterlevine.ws?p=35354
(on a lecture by Iain McGilchrest)

Don’t Call Them the Underdogs New film gives competitive students of Washington Urban Debate League their due and others hope for the future of civic engagement

My review in Education Next: www.educationnext.org/dont-call-th...

"the USA at 250: constitutional crisis"

(Notes on the fatal flaws of presidential republics, the development of a 4th branch, and the incapacity of Congress to legislate):

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What Counts As Success? Assessing The Impact Of Civics In Higher Ed (video of a webinar): peterlevine.ws?p=35323

AI as the road to socialism? peterlevine.ws?p=35297

New in the SSIR, "The Civic Stakes of Organizational Disagreement" by Dayna Cunningham and me.

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(Makes a case for pluralism, not neutrality.)

It is better to live as if one’s life were a story, yet many people cannot live that way:

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(with references to Kant, Arendt, Habermas, and Jonathan Lear)

What Counts as Success? Assessing the Impact of Civics in Higher Ed | Peter Levine

webinar: What Counts as Success? Assessing the Impact of Civics in Higher Ed peterlevine.ws?p=35266

can AI solve “wicked problems”? | Peter Levine I’ve been reading predictions that artificial intelligence will wipe out swaths of jobs–see Josh Tyrangiel in The Atlantic or Jan Tegze. Meanwhile, this week, I’m teaching Rittel & Webber (1973), the ...

can AI solve "wicked problems"?

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Karl Jaspers on collective responsibility and polarization: peterlevine.ws?p=35215

some upcoming talks on democracy and civic education | Peter Levine These talks are open to the public: March 2, at Boston University, the Center for Media Innovation & Social Impact (MISI) is hosting me for “Civics in the Classroom.” I will talk about how to study ci...

some upcoming talks on democracy and civic education:

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How Walter Benjamin, the Hebrew prophets, and Marx think about the future. (And the value of having a vivid vision of what will come): peterlevine.ws?p=35195

priorities of liberals and conservatives | Peter Levine

postmaterialism measures for liberals and conservatives in 1994, 2010, 2021: peterlevine.ws?p=35187

Summit on Civics in Higher Education, April 10 at Tufts: peterlevine.ws?p=35184

the case for viewpoint diversity: peterlevine.ws?p=35172

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: 2026 Institute for Civically Enngaged Research | Peter Levine

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: The 2026 APSA Institute for Civically Engaged Research, Los Angeles, CA, July 13-16. Information on how to apply--by April 15, 2026--is here: peterlevine.ws?p=35168

"Sadness is a Light Kindled in the Heart" by Hannah Arendt (1943) peterlevine.ws?p=35155

the weakness of Trump’s domestic strategy | Peter Levine

Thoughts on Yuval Levin's argument that Trump's policy strategy is ineffective (and what that argument implies for opposition strategy): peterlevine.ws?p=35149

how Hannah Arendt moved away from pure thinking: peterlevine.ws?p=35129

Syllabus of a Hannah Arendt seminar: peterlevine.ws?p=35123

“Is the problem that two sides are too far apart,” he asked, “or that one side is organised around hate and the other around love and dignity?” peterlevine.ws?p=35120

"Caedmon's Hymn" (the earliest English poem) and modern responses:

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propose a Civic Studies panel for the American Political Science Association meeting: peterlevine.ws?p=35077

a resource for students on social movements and activism:

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a conversation about civics in Chinese traditions: peterlevine.ws?p=35058:

Outline of a new book manuscript, The Way of Skepticism:

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on strategies for boycotts:
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in praise of John Florio's 1603 trans. of Montaigne: peterlevine.ws?p=35021

A paper entitled "Policy Models as Networks of Beliefs":

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The 2020 ANES asked, “Do you trust ordinary people or experts for public policy?" Overall, 42% chose both experts and ordinary people, 40% said experts, and 17% said ordinary people. A narrow majority (51%) of Democrats chose experts vs. only 25% of Republicans. More: peterlevine.ws?p=35001