Practicing a civic perspective
How citizens engage in questions of political life every day and why it matters
Shellee O'Brien
139 posts
Questions of Civic Proportions: What can we do to fight all the baloney?
My Fellow Citizens, Gullibility kills. That’s the last line of Carl Sagan’s essay, “The Fine Art of Baloney Detection [http:...
Quotes to Think By: Timothy Snyder's Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Quotes to Think By: Timothy Snyder’sOn Tyranny Understanding the politics of the everyday and the choices we make Timothy Snyder’s...
Questions of Civic Proportions: Where will your mind wander?
My Fellow Citizens, I haven’t read Ryan Holiday’s recent book, but I’ve started to suspect that this is the...
Quotes to Think By: Octavia Butler's Rules for Predicting the Future
Quotes to Think By: Octavia Butler’s Rules for Predicting the Future History, perspective and our ability to solve new problems Hidden...