There’s a chorus asking us to think about our civic health. A relatively quiet (i.e., hardly noticeable) effort in Arizona added the citizenship test [https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2015/01/16/arizona-will-require-high-school-students-to-pass-citizenship-test-to-graduate-can-you-pass/] to graduation requirements. Then there was San Bernardino. And, in President Obama’s
I think to appreciate or even tolerate this post you have to accept at face value Will Harris’s assertion that Americans “live in a theory.” The theory is derived from the Constitution and includes such central organizing ideas as innovation, wholeness, inquiry, optimism, order, deliberation, and covenant to name
As I returned to my too real world, I clicked through my Tivo playlist over breakfast this morning and found Karl Iagnemma [http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/3313/04.html] on an episode of NOVA Science Now. One of the country’s top scientific inventors and an award