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Colleague, News, and Opinion Links for the Week of September 20, 2026

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Staying up to date is a depressing task these days, but there is some good news in here, along with much concerning news.

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And Now We Are Having ANOTHER Election that Both Sides Believe They Absolutely, Positively, Must Win!

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The U.S. is now facing yet another election that both sides say is "existential" -- if they lose ALL will be lost. A reflection on how TO and how not TO respond to this situation.

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Uncertainty Clouds: A Key to Navigating Today's Chaotic and Malicious Information Environment

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This essay explains how concepts based on neural networks and quantum theory's Heisenberg principle can help us navigate today's many assaults on the knowability of objective truth.

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Revisiting Kenneth Boulding's First Law: If It Exists (or Has Been Done), It Must Be Possible

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"If it exists, it must be possible" seems obvious. But it apparently isn't, because we ignore that belief all the time. Paying attention to it opens up possibilities we badly need.

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September 11 Reflections Plus Colleague, News, and Opinion Links

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A collection of particularly insightful readings on the continuing implications of 9-11, along with our regular colleague, news, and opinion posts on our current intractable conflicts and what is being done to address them.

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Measuring the Many Dimensions of Citizenship

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"Citizenship" is a contested word with many dimensions. Rather than abandoning or replacing the word, we should help people understand it better and work to reach the "sweet spot" on at least four dimensions.

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Ray Salvatore Jennings: A Volunteer Economy

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We have more people willing to help than we have had in years, but fewer able to make a long-term, standing commitment to fill the civic spaces that need them. What is scarce is not the impulse to help. It is the ability to keep showing up.

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Colleague, News, and Opinion Links for the Week of August 30, 2026

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Again catching up with a lot of links from the last two weeks. Some good news, some much more worrisome.

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Harry Boyte: We Are the Ones We’ve Been Waiting For: Using the Braver Angels Library on Courageous Citizenship

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The Burgesses and Harry Boyte, Co-Chair of the Braver Angels Civic Scholars Council (CSC) announce a partnership to publish the CSC papers on BI and Harry gives the background about how these papers came to be.

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