> “‘Come!’ said Africanus, ‘how long will your mind be chained to the Earth?'” Before setting out for Los Angeles, the scholars invited to the National Academy for Civics in Government read the Dream of Scipio [http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/cicero_dream_of_scipio_02_trans.htm]. It’s
We are a people who need a frontier. Carl Sagan provided these words as he reflected on space exploration long before Atlantis launched into space for the last time. You’ve seen these reflections on Politicolor through our imagined conversation between Cicero and astronaut Michael Collins [https://www.politicolor.com/
How is the first picture of Earth from space the most powerful political picture ever published? Marking the 40th anniversary of the famous picture, a British newspaper, The Independent [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/forty-years-since-the-first-picture-of-earth-from-space-1297569.html] , remarked that the three astronauts of the Apollo 8 mission “went to
As someone who has attended two of the Center of the Constitution’s weekend programs, I was overly excited when I was accepted to the 2009’s National Institute. Of course I couldn’t wait to pick Will’s brain for more and more insight, but quickly I have learned
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