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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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Mónica Guzmán Explains Why Curiosity is a Super Power (and More)

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Curiosity is transformative -- it allows us to see the world as it really is, not as we pretend it or wish it to be. And that transformation makes solutions possible that weren’t possible before.

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Lorelei Kelly and Mónica Inés Espíndola: Two More Takes on Courageous Citizenship

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Two very different approaches to improving democracy, but both are innovative examples of courageous citizenship -- one in practice, the other in theory, aspiring to become the practice of all of us.

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Colleague, News, and Opinion Links for the Week of August 16, 2026

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It is harder and harder to find good news these days--but we try, while still giving you the important news we must know.

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Harry Boyte: Civic Organizing Beyond Advocacy, Protest, and Community Organizing -- Part 1

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Public work is an approach to democracy and civic engagement that is fundamentally different from advocacy, and is a much more powerful way, not only, to get things done, but to improve oneself and one's community in the process.

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