Questions of Civic Proportions: How does history help us find ourselves in the space between the past and the future?

My Fellow Citizens, Listen, the United States has come unstuck in time. You might recognize this line from Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five, but it matches the landscape of my mind today.  U.S. Senator Ted Cruz provoked this feeling of coming unstuck or unmoored. He represents me in the Senate,

Our Civic Health: Discovering the Art & Science of Working Together

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