What is We? No, it’s not poor English. Rather, it’s good, American English. In a separate post, Stepwinder waxed eloquently over “Who We Are”. I’ve been struck repeatedly with the notion of “We” since the National Academy. It’s that phenomenon which I call the BoomerLang Effect; you know, where one first learns a new word, [...]
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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 [...]
We're Having a Wiki!
We want to add a wiki to Politicolor so access to the site might be a bit quirky this weekend. The wiki will be a place to share ideas for the classroom and to continue the scholarly collaboration of the National Academy. So, please bear with us this weekend as we extend the floorplan of [...]
Virtual Academy: The Declaration of Independence
Do you remember the first reading assignment to be completed before you arrived in L.A.? It may have been the first clue of what the three weeks would be but you may not have realized it then. Here are the instructions: The Declaration of Independence. [Please read this as if you have never read it [...]
My Wish for You: A Letter to My Students Past, Present and Future
Katie Reen graciously shared a copy of her oral exam paper incorporating her insighhts from the National Academy at Occidental College last summer. Katie’s students are 11 and 12 years old and she explains, “The concept of my paper is a letter to my students, past, present and future about what I wish for them [...]
Emily Dickinson, 1865
Revolution is the Pod Systems rattle from When the Winds of Will are stirred Excellent is Bloom But except its Russet Base Every Summer be The Entomber of itself, So of Liberty– Left inactive on the Stalk All its Purple fled Revolution shakes it for Test if it be dead.
Are the Political Parties Bringing Us Closer to a Unitary Government?
Do our current “major” political parties by their nature bring us closer to a unitary form of government? In the first 6 six years of the Bush presidency we seemed to get closer and closer to a unitary government (to Dick Cheney’s delight). Republican members of Congress seemed to be Republicans first and then members of [...]
New post on my site
Any of you who are mathematically or Federalistically inclined are welcome to check out my latest post on my personal blog. I’m in a two-week math school, and as I’ve said previously, Federalism is rapidly becoming the lens through which I view the world! puck
The Nat'cademy Writing Project
Upon my return from LA, sometime in the Fall I guess, I revised part of my Individual Writing Project. I was never quite satisfied with my comic interpretation of Leviathan, p.21. There were a few key elements which I failed to execute due to time constraints and the blaring of that damn fire alarm. I’m [...]
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