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/mur.html] at the corner of Cesar Chavez
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 Institute. Of course I couldn’t wait to pick Will’s brain for more and more insight, but quickly I have learned
I’ve been recently reminded that my own activism has roots in the campaigns for Africa in the 80’s. I convinced my mother to make a donation so I could order a Live Aid t-shirt. I’m sure she hoped the purchase would buy her some quiet time but
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 and 12 years old and she explains, “The concept of my paper is a letter to my students, past, present and future
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 our decisions, but our decision making process—for the heart of Garreau’s thesis maintains that human nature changes. We’ve all