by Shellee O'Brien | Nov 20, 2021 | Feature, Reading LIst
Why We Believe Reading is a Civic Duty Books have lost their audience. The trend is a downward slope no one expects to turn around. Every year, fewer and fewer people report having finished a book. Our lists of leisure time pursuits often do not include “reading...
by Shellee O'Brien | Nov 7, 2021 | Newsletter, Uncategorized
Questions of Civic Proportions Newsletter November 7, 2021 For the Civic-Minded I thought I had unlocked my superpower. When I learned to read, I participated in a program that required knocking on my neighbor’s doors. I read to them from my stapled packet of...
by Shellee O'Brien | Oct 24, 2021 | Newsletter
Questions of Civic Proportions Newsletter October 24, 2021 For the Civic-Minded  As our third legislative session wraps up in Texas, I have spent too much time with the never-ending scroll that goes along with staying up-to-date. We’ve now seen that Facebook...
by Shellee O'Brien | Oct 22, 2021 | Reading LIst
How Democracies Die: A Must-Read for Preventative Care This book is no post-mortem. Reading it shifts the focus from breaking news to protecting norms. Conventional wisdom suggests that Donald Trump is one of the best things that ever happened for cable news. Every...
by Shellee O'Brien | Apr 4, 2021 | Newsletter
Questions of Civic Proportions Newsletter April 4, 2021 My Fellow Citizens, In an instant, the right song has the power to transport across time and space to some past moment. On this day, there’s a song that transports me to a moment that we share. At some...
