The Academy is talking about the “Federalist Transition” and we needed Kuhn to get there. This video aims to explain Kuhn’s understanding of revolutions but also reminds us to take seriously the “baggage” that accompanies the words we choose. And, if none of that is interesting, we can consider his choice of music. While we [...]
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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 [...]
The Not So Radical American
Watching William Gibson’s “No Maps for These Territories,” I found one brief moment in the film that resonated with a million other moments in time. The famous science fiction author wanted to describe his work and to explain why he has never seen himself as a visionary. He said we live in an incomprehensible present [...]
The Opposite is Also True
This TED video reminded me of one of the Academy’s posters. Some have suggested it’s one of the most confusing. There are blue AFs and purple Fs with positive and negative signs. Boxes drawn around the pairs suggest relationships between the Federalists, the Antifederalists, the constitution and the anti-constitution. Remember that one? In this 3 [...]
Nature Guides Design
JanineBenyus is suggesting innovators rediscover nature as a source of innovation. This 20 minute TED talk focuses on the design advice present in nature provoking innovators to ask “how would nature solve this problem?” Benyus walks through tale after tale where nature provided solutions–building a quieter, faster and more efficient bullet train, stopping bacteria growth [...]
Virtual Academy: How do you know?
This week’s work at the National Academy has helped me reconsider a book I picked up in Charlottesville, Virginia several years ago. The title was intriguing, “What Do You Believe is True Even Though You Cannot Prove it?” This was a collection of essays written in response to the 2005 Edge Question and included Howard [...]
An old post
I am going to add this now, but as you can tell I wrote this last fall, but wrongly posted it as a comment not as a post. Hope it can still start a debate!! I believe we had our first real Constitutional moment during Wednesday’s final Presidental debate. In one of the final questions [...]
The Wave, Human Nature, and Our Radical Evolution
Published in 2005, Joel Garreau’s Radical Evolution offers multiple perspectives on the future of human kind. Interviewing world-class thinkers, engineers, and philosophers, the author examines not only our decisions, but our decision making process—for the heart of Garreau’s thesis maintains that human nature changes. We’ve all wondered whether we’re still part of that process. Over [...]
Project Citizen
Having been briefly introduced to Project Citizen at the National Academy, I decided to try it out this year. It’s an ideal, outcome-based activity as much about the journey as the finish. And the great thing about the finish is that it’s really just the beginning, for students receive the tools to research and formulate [...]
Is a Bailout of the Auto Companies Federalist in Nature?
The following thread is from a conversation conducted via email: –Hobbes21 ——————— Hey, Whole, I’m wondering what y’all think about the proposed automobile manufacturers’ bailout. Is it federalism at work, or diet socialism? Are the Big Three the last, best vestiges of a strong middle class, or simply lumbering dinosaurs? What is the price to our [...]
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