Category: Civic Thought
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In Search of Good Citizens and Civic Leaders?
Categories: Civic ThoughtDon’t Overlook Students Enrolled at Non-Selective Institutions By J. Cherie StrachanFebruary 10, 2026 Recent discussions about reinvigorating the cultivation of good citizens and civic leaders in the United States have largely focused on the role that faculty at elite institutions should play in this endeavor. Yet tailoring such efforts to elite institutions will be ineffective
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Civic Education for Civic Capacities
Categories: Civic ThoughtBy Andrew J. PerrinFebruary 10, 2026 If higher education should focus on civic education as part of its commitment to the public good, what should that civic education look like? And how will we know if we have been successful in designing and providing it? Good citizenship requires a balance between commitment and forbearance—or, more
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Can Civic Thought Reach Students Alienated from Civic Life?
By Ari KohnFebruary 10, 2026 To think like a citizen is to take responsibility for a shared world. Yet for many college students today, that world no longer feels shared—nor does it seem worth taking responsibility for. Any attempt to reestablish a civic mission within the contemporary university confronts a basic condition: civics cannot find
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‘The Rise and Fall of Rational Control’ Review: To Think and Make It So
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A solution to campus extremism
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On Saving the Humanities
Categories: Civic ThoughtA Response to the 2025 Civic Thought and Practice Conference By Solveig Gold & Joshua Katz, November 10, 2025 “Will Republicans save the humanities?” So asked Jenna and Ben Storey in their widely read article last year about the rise of civics centers at public universities in red and purple states. For us (two classicists), the future
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What has Civics to Do with Literature?
Categories: Civic ThoughtBy Michael CluneNovember 10, 2025 Earlier this year, I joined the Chase Center at The Ohio State University after spending two decades as a professor of English. People ask me: Why would a literary scholar and novelist want to join a civics center? And why would a civics center want the study of literature? The
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Why Schools of Civic Thought Matter
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2025 Constitution Day Address
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Civics, Partisanship, and the Academy
Categories: Civic Thought