I want to share a call to arms: “Less despair. More repair.” So says Austin Kleon, a local artist and writer here in Austin, Texas. His most recent book Keep Going wants readers to persist in their creative pursuits. I’m borrowing this call for resolve in the interest of
John Lewis: Grit in Service to Public Life How Civic Grit Builds Community and Fights Failure Grit is a funny word. When someone says it, there’s almost always a guttural growl or a sneer added. When we say grit, we feel it. A small group of early-stage entrepreneurs had
By now, you’ve heard discussion of the latest book about the Trump presidency. You’ve undoubtedly heard one of its key phrases, “dangerously uninformed.” But is any of this news? We have long documented just how comfortably uninformed the American public is. Last year’s Constitution Day Survey by
What should we expect the work of “impartial justice” to look like? To begin the impeachment trial, the oath to the U.S. Constitution isn’t enough. The U.S. Senate has now become something different. They have received the articles of impeachment and taken a second oath. We’re
It’s that time of year again. It might be unique to election years. Let’s all join hands or shake our fists or whatever it is you do when we join together to call for better civics. Our country is falling apart, y’all. If only there were an