There’s a chorus asking us to think about our civic health. A relatively quiet (i.e., hardly noticeable) effort in Arizona added the citizenship test to graduation requirements. Then there was San Bernardino. And, in President Obama’s State of the Union speech, he asked American citizens to join
I think to appreciate or even tolerate this post you have to accept at face value Will Harris’s assertion that Americans “live in a theory.” The theory is derived from the Constitution and includes such central organizing ideas as innovation, wholeness, inquiry, optimism, order, deliberation, and covenant to name
As I returned to my too real world, I clicked through my Tivo playlist over breakfast this morning and found Karl Iagnemma [http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/3313/04.html] on an episode of NOVA Science Now. One of the country’s top scientific inventors and an award