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 | Jan 31, 2021 | Awe, Feature
Our First Color Salon: Recalling a Human Capacity to Do Good One evening of good conversation provided the remedy for cynical ideas about what lies ahead. Our digital lives make it so that information washes over us all day, every day. People announce when they decide...
by Shellee O'Brien | Jun 9, 2020 | Feature
Practicing a Civic Perspective How citizens engage in questions of political life every day and why it matters Since the beginning, thoughtful political observation has happened by way of big questions. What makes a question big? It’s something like the theory...
