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CIRCLE report: How Does Gen Z Really Feel about Democracy? peterlevine.ws?p=33873

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Please read this statement from Rümeysa Öztür and ask if you'd rather be on her side or that of the people imprisoning her.

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Me, in The Nation: "Rebuilding the government is going to be the opportunity and the calling of Generation Z.’” peterlevine.ws?p=33836

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"How to engage our universities in this crisis": an essay on moving beyond the conventional activist's framework, which treats the university as a powerful entity that must be confronted, without giving up on influencing higher education: peterlevine.ws?p=33839

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Good crowd at Tufts right now

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America's secret police

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The state of nonviolent grassroots resistance: peterlevine.ws?p=33795, an update with quotes from @msifry.bsky.social, @chenoweth.bsky.social, @sifill.bsky.social and other essential sources

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building a democracy helpdesk: peterlevine.ws?p=33776

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important findings about the persuasive power of facts peterlevine.ws?p=33770 (Offering a conceptual framework for Costello, Pennycook & Rand [2024] on reducing conspiracy beliefs and Kalla, A.S. Levine & Broockman [2022] on deep canvassing)

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16 colliding forces that create our moment 1. Costs of neoliberalism 2. Class inversion (right-wing parties depending on less-educated and less affluent constituencies 3. Right-wing populist authoritarianism: 4. Effective state repression details on each: peterlevine.ws?p=33723

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The Defiance This Time by @msifry.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/theconne...

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the ham actor and the psychopath: Adorno (1951) on Trump and Musk peterlevine.ws?p=33704

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How markets "think" about politics: peterlevine.ws?p=33695 (Using Hayek to argue that markets do NOT make rational large-scale predictions.

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how pragmatism is more concerned with the future than utilitarianism is peterlevine.ws?p=33677

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Famous successful boycotts have had: 1) A goal, 2) A target, 3) A demand, 4) A cost, 5) Negotiators, 6) A message for third-parties, and 7) Accountable leaders. More on these features: peterlevine.ws?p=33673

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the rise of oligarchy: peterlevine.ws?p=33658 (Putting Trump, Musk and Bezos in global context)

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Notes on a strange, interesting, and ultimately moving work in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts: Carlo Crivelli's "Lamentation" peterlevine.ws?p=33638

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Apply to attend the 2025 Institute for Civically Engaged Research (ICER) at UCLA in Los Angeles on July 7-10. For political science grad students and profs at all levels: peterlevine.ws?p=33636

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Paper workshop (and subsequent special issue) on “Democratic Education in Undemocratic Times.” docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Sociology nerds will know why I found this amusing.

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1. Even as we defend the civil service, we can plan to rebuild it. 2. We need a generational call to service. 3. Service=full-time gov't work 4. The goal is not to return to 2024. 5. But reforms must be legal. 6. The "civic" side of government must be strengthened. More: peterlevine.ws?p=33624

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Quoting Milan Kundera and Walter Benjamin to support the point that it's unwise to feel nostalgia in the face of political crisis: peterlevine.ws?p=33536

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The theory of the Biden environmental policy will be proven correct if the spending strengthened green interest groups sufficiently. More discussion here: peterlevine.ws?p=33575

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Did the first #resistance work? I argue here that social movements that had valid transformative goals faced backlash and struggled, but grassroots efforts to preserve institutions were successful: peterlevine.ws?p=33533

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In the latest CBS/YouGov poll, young people are the most supportive of Trump, although also paying the least attention. Details: peterlevine.ws?p=33521

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Historical examples of resistance by the civil service suggest that resistance is much more successful when the public is convinced that the stakes are constitutional rather than budgetary. Details: peterlevine.ws?p=33466

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Weber argues that bureaucracy spreads because it's maximally efficient. "Efficiency" would not come to most people's minds when asked about bureaucracies. Was Weber wrong? (Some quotes and discussion here: peterlevine.ws?p=33507)

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predicting Trump's moves: 1/ He's interested in the chatter 2/ He is canny about self-interest 3/ He picks on the most vulnerable 4/ He doesn't care about outcomes 5/ Breaking norms & laws is a plus 6/ He provides cover for ideologues More on these points: peterlevine.ws?p=33489

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Hold the date for Frontiers of Democracy 2025: Listening and Leading at Tufts June 19-21: peterlevine.ws?p=33463

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Marx interprets the institutions of the Paris Commune as new because the workers rule. Roberto Mangabeira Unger warns that changing who rules doesn't improve institutions, which require innovative designs. More here: peterlevine.ws?p=33419

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J.S. Mill (1859) and George Eliot (1879) both imagine a world with thinking machines and see losses for human agency and flourishing. The Victorians warn us about AI: peterlevine.ws?p=33398

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What does it mean to educate about strategies, policies, and skills? Discussed in: peterlevine.ws?p=33367

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The current state of resistance, and what to do about it: 1/ There is some anti-Trump resistance, but not enough; 2/ There are psychological reasons; 3/ These can be addressed by organizations; 4/ We don't have enough of the right kind of orgs; 5/ We can fix that. peterlevine.ws?p=33405

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Paul Shambroom’s city council images represent a version of populism in which the people are diverse and deliberative and they merit the right to do the unglamorous and endless work of self-government. More: peterlevine.ws?p=33378

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Civic Studies call for papers for APSA 2025 in Vancouver: peterlevine.ws?p=33036 APSA has extended the deadline to 1/20

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my 20th-century political philosophy syllabus for this semester: peterlevine.ws?p=33346

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Sharing Sacred Spaces, Inc runs a successful Interreligious Communities Project (ICP). I recommend this open webinar on January 16th at 7pm EST: www.sharingsacredspaces.org/events-1/how....

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