The 112th Congress has already delivered on a campaign promise. They read the entire Constitution on the House floor. Like most campaign promises, however, it wasn’t as easy as it sounded. There was a quibble about which version to read, the original version or the current version that reflects revisions, amendments or deletions…. actually, they [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Kuhn’
Talking About Revolution
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 [...]
That’s a Re-Write
With two weeks of the National Academy behind the 2010 crew, there’s been a lot of talk about the Writing Assignment. Locke claimed the largest portion of this year’s re-writes with Cicero and Deuteronomy each coming in as a close second. News stories and six word re-presentations took on the challenge of communicating world-making ideas. [...]
On Theory, Poetry, and the American Constitution
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 a small and perhaps unrepresentative subset. [...]
