This is one of the easiest ways to share your ideas on Politicolor. Every week we ask our contributors two questions and post their answers in an effort to help you find good ideas on the web. Because effective citizens are informed citizens… What didn’t you know last week? Arachne at her loom, after an [...]
Posts under ‘2009 National Academy’
The Next 100
We’ve passed a mile marker… 100 posts on Politicolor. This site represents a lot of heavy thinking from within the classroom as well as from the world writ large. The richness of ideas presented here speaks to the communities of scholars created for brief moments in either Los Angeles or Orange, Virginia. While those events [...]
Weekly Wavelength
The summer circuit has begun. A few of our regular contributors are on their way to Orange, Virginia for the NEH Landmarks Institute at Madison’s Montpelier. So, I’m finally posting this today courtesy of free wifi at Hyperion Coffee in Fredericksburg. Here’s what your favorite group of civic-minded thinkers are thinking this week: What didn’t [...]
Weekly Wavelength
Summer vacation has either started or is very near for most of our contributors in the classroom. I think it shows in the diversity of ideas shared this week–including student portfolios! What didn’t you know last week? Great in-depth reporting by NPR and ProPublica about Traumatic Brain Injury from Afghanistan and Iraq and the lack [...]
Knowing Political Knowledge
In The Politics, Aristotle suggests political knowledge is sovereign knowledge: In all the branches of knowledge and in every kind of craft the end in view is some good. In the most sovereign of these, the capacity for [leadership in] political matters, the end in view is the greatest good and the good which is [...]
Constitutional Currecny
I have been reflecting on the Constitutional Currency project from the National Academy. This created a lot of discussion and debate within our group. Some of these discussions should be shared by others. There were a couple of themes within this project that really stood above the rest for me. First, was the issue of [...]
Make a Pledge to Be Here
Discussion happens here if we make it happen. We each need to find a way to step into the forum and make a pledge to be here. Kallan, an Academy participant this year writing as Federal Teacher, made a pledge to give Politicolor 20 minutes a month and asked alumni to do the same. A [...]
Your Face on the Next Ten Dollar Bill
One group accepted the challenge of creating constitutional currency this year. Matt, Stacy, Linda, Christina and Gerald focused on representing the primacy of the people in our constitutional system and borrowed a couple of ideas from Cicero to map out their scheme. From an image of the night sky on the back of their proposed [...]
2009 National Academy: Taking it Home
The “dance party” finally pulled the plug at nearly 1:00 the next morning. Others had already said their goodbyes in order to pack the last of their things or to sleep before an early morning departure. The National Academy had reach its final destination. The last day’s presentations included two Creedal Affirmations, Constitutional Currency, Light [...]
Three weeks later
I feel a need to write this, I don’t know what form this will take but I know its from the heart. I look down at my clock its 124 am Friday morning, the last pure day of this National Academy. I think back to all the excitement I have experienced, this beautiful weather, a [...]
