Showing posts with label civic duty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label civic duty. Show all posts
Monday, August 4, 2025

What's Important to Being American?

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  How many Americans think believing in the principles of the Declaration of Independence is more important for being American than... Suppo...
Sunday, March 16, 2025

College-Educated Parents and Civic Life

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Many posts  have  discussed   marriage  and  family . Daniel A. Cox at the Survey Center on American Life : Not all Americans have been as ...
Friday, August 23, 2024

Educational Inequality and Civic Life

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Many   posts   have  discussed   economi c and  educationa l   inequality . The  effects  of  inequality  reach many  corners  of American l...
Tuesday, July 2, 2024

American Dream

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Saturday, April 13, 2024

Tocqueville on Juries

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From  Democracy in America [eds. J. P. Mayer and Max Lerner, trans., George Lawrence, Harper & Row, 1966, pp. 249-53] To regard the jur...
Friday, March 29, 2024

A Duty to Uphold the Law

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 From the State Bar of California: In a 128-page ruling, California State Bar Court Hearing Judge Yvette D. Roland found licensee John Charl...
Sunday, December 3, 2023

Civic Opportunity

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de Vries, M., Kim, J.Y. & Han, H. The unequal landscape of civic opportunity in America. Nat Hum Behav (2023). https://doi-org.ccl.idm....
Wednesday, May 17, 2023

Religion and Civic Participation

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From PRRI: When asked about their civic and political participation in the past year, one-third of Americans (33%) said they signed a petit...
Wednesday, May 3, 2023

Declines in Civics and History Proficiency

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  Donna St. George at WP : Just 13 percent of the nation’s eighth graders were proficient in U.S. history last year, and 22 percent were pr...
Thursday, November 10, 2022

Being a Good Member of Society

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Many posts have discussed topics such as civic duty and partisan polarization . Laura Silver at Pew: Around seven-in-ten U.S. adults (69...
Saturday, February 19, 2022

Youth Civic Engagement

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From the Brennan Center: Civic engage­ment is a key indic­ator of adult­hood. Young adults respond to the social and polit­ical issues of th...
Monday, February 14, 2022

True Faith

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 Former RNC chair Mark Racicot at The Billings Gazette : The Oath of Office taken by every member of the United States Senate and House of ...
Monday, January 24, 2022

Civic Education and Civic Virtue

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 Albert Cheng and Jay Greene at National Affairs : Civic education does not occur merely within the life of the school; it also occurs in h...
Thursday, August 12, 2021

Masks in 1918

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Many posts have discussed COVID , vaccines , and masks . We have been here before.  J. Alexander Navarro at The Conversation: In mid-Octob...
Wednesday, July 7, 2021

Encouraging Trend on Jury Duty

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Previous posts  (including  a first-hand account of my own experience ) have discussed  jury duty . Russell Contreras at Axios: Driving the...
Friday, February 5, 2021

President Biden at the National Prayer Breakfast

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Many posts have discussed the role of religion in American public life .  Yesterday, President Biden delivered a message to the Natio...
Sunday, September 6, 2020

Guns and the Social Compact

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David French: We know the obligation of the government, but what about the obligation of the citizen? Here’s where we turn to Thomas Jeffer...
Sunday, January 5, 2020

The Military Draft

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The possibility of war with Iran has raised questions about the military draft.  Under current law, women do not have to register, but men...
Wednesday, July 17, 2019

Religion: "Nothing in Particular"

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The 2018 GSS was just released and there's some big news. Those of "no religion" (23.1%) are statistically the same size as ...
Tuesday, March 5, 2019

Teaching Deliberation

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A release from the University of Houston-Clear Lake: In a world full of politically divisive and polarizing issue s, the level of public d...