Peter Levine

This weekend, at Amherst, I enjoyed a rich conversation about the purposes of liberal arts colleges.

The Center for the Humanities at Tufts and the Center for Public History will offer a discussion on “The University and the Democratic Imagination: Civic Studies and the Black Intellectual Tradition” at 4:30 pm on Oct. 5 with Hollis Robbins, Brandon Terry,

The late Elinor Ostrom taught us many useful things, including how to analyze complex situations rigorously to reveal ways to improve them.

Next weekend, I’ll participate in a discussion at a famous liberal arts college about the various crises facing such institutions.

Frontiers of Democracy 2026: The United States at 250: Meeting the Moment for Democracy, in the US and Around the World October 2 – 4 | Tufts University in Medford, MA Frontiers of Democracy is an annual conference at Tufts University’s Jonathan M.

AI tools can be designed to accomplish tasks that have been done so far by human workers.

On September 2, I posted Wendell Berry’s poem with that title on social media, moved that he had just missed the anniversary of the day when, according to the poem, he accepted “decline” and recognized that he would dissolve into “sleep.”

Here is a tentative effort to map the social sciences for a novice, such as a student who’s thinking of taking some social science courses.

In The Politics of Individualism (Oxford University Press, 2025), Christopher F.

You might think that the USA must change deeply over the next decade, which will unfold 250 years after the decade in which our republic originally took shape and will include the first eight years after the Trump Administration.

Imagine a person giving attention to an artifact, something that another human being has made.

The Educating for American Democracy roadmap asks all educators (and policymakers–and perhaps students) to address this challenge: “How can we offer an account of U.S. constitutional democracy that is simultaneously honest about the wrongs of the past wit…

“The feeling that the world is a bounded whole–that is the mystical.” — Wittgenstein The Spanish word quedar can be translated as to remain, to stay, to meet, to fit, to suit (as in Ese color te queda bien), to be located, to end up, to agree, or to be le…

This post is by Anna Saavedra, Director of the Center for Civic Society at the USC Schaeffer Institute for Public Policy and Government Service, and me.

In the Alliance for Civics in the Academy, we say: Civic education should be a shared intellectual activity, grounded in texts, aimed at building a practical capacity for listening to and acting together with others, including those of differing beliefs.