Taking Art to the Streets in East L.A.
This year’s National Academy experienced the potency of color and politics through a mural tour [http://www.lamurals.org/] of east L.A. Ben Weber, a participant this year, arranged for us to meet Carlos Callejo [http://www.utep.edu/border/...
2009 National Institute
As someone who has attended two of the Center of the Constitution’s weekend programs, I was overly excited when I was accepted to the 2009’s National...
Ubuntu and the Birthplace of Cool
I’ve been recently reminded [/2009/06/26/what-the-king-of-pop-did-with-politics/] that my own activism has roots in the campaigns for Africa in the 80’s. I convinced my mother...
My Wish for You: A Letter to My Students Past, Present and Future
Katie Reen graciously shared a copy of her oral exam paper incorporating her insighhts from the National Academy at Occidental College last summer. Katie’s students are 11...
The Wave, Human Nature, and Our Radical Evolution
Published in 2005, Joel Garreau’s Radical Evolution offers multiple perspectives on the future of human kind. Interviewing world-class thinkers, engineers, and philosophers, the author examines not only...