reforming the parties, and especially the Democrats:

peterlevine.ws?p=35532

Teaching Skepticism in Kyiv and Nablus - Public Seminar Peter Levin discusses his experiences teaching the philosophy of skepticism in occupied Palestine and Ukraine

This is a brand-new piece by me in Public Seminar. It's partly autobiographical (discussing my visits to Ukraine and the West Bank in 2025) and partly philosophical. I argue that skepticism supports compassion and commitment, when they might seem opposed.
publicseminar.org/2026/04/teac...

postdoc in Civic Studies: peterlevine.ws?p=35524

Summer Institute of Civic Studies in Dayton | Peter Levine The Kettering Foundation Democracy and Community focus area will host the Summer Institute of Civic Studies at the Kettering Foundation Dayton campus this summer from Sunday, August 2 to Saturday, Aug...

Summer Institute of Civic Studies in Dayton @kettering.org peterlevine.ws?p=35512

A System-Analysis of Democracy’s Crisis | Peter Levine Newly published: Peter Levine, “A System-Analysis of Democracy’s Crisis,” in Studies in Law, Politics, and Society (2026), https://doi.org/10.1108/S1059-433720260000091003 Abstract: Democracy is in cr...

A System-Analysis of Democracy's Crisis peterlevine.ws?p=35514

postdoc opportunity in Civic AI peterlevine.ws?p=35506

why be introspective? peterlevine.ws?p=35466

(responding to @chatterton.bsky.social)

what is a brute fact? (on Arendt, truth, and plurality):

peterlevine.ws?p=35444

Civics in Higher Education: A National Summit April 10 at Tufts. Agenda and registration link: peterlevine.ws?p=35441

Are elites responsible for democracies' crises?

peterlevine.ws?p=35425

a talk in "educating for democratic resilience":

peterlevine.ws?p=35410

Jürgen Habermas (1929-2026):

peterlevine.ws?p=35382

Prisoner’s Dilemma in the Gulf | Peter Levine Although many people are using principles of game theory to analyze the Trump/Iran war and to predict the next steps, I haven’t come across an explicit model. As always, models drastically oversimplif...

Prisoner's Dilemma in the Gulf peterlevine.ws?p=35372

How do we know whether fish are happy? How do we know whether we are? (Zen, Aristotelian, and Taoist discussions) | Peter Levine When you watch fish swimming around in very cold water, they look fine. Human beings have a protein, TRPM8, that reacts to cold and affects our nervous system, causing discomfort or even pain when the...

How do we know whether fish are happy? How do we know whether we are? (Zen, Aristotelian, and Taoist discussions) peterlevine.ws?p=35358

AI as Satanic peterlevine.ws?p=35354
(on a lecture by Iain McGilchrest)

Don’t Call Them the Underdogs New film gives competitive students of Washington Urban Debate League their due and others hope for the future of civic engagement

My review in Education Next: www.educationnext.org/dont-call-th...

"the USA at 250: constitutional crisis"

(Notes on the fatal flaws of presidential republics, the development of a 4th branch, and the incapacity of Congress to legislate):

peterlevine.ws?p=35334

What Counts As Success? Assessing The Impact Of Civics In Higher Ed (video of a webinar): peterlevine.ws?p=35323

AI as the road to socialism? peterlevine.ws?p=35297

New in the SSIR, "The Civic Stakes of Organizational Disagreement" by Dayna Cunningham and me.

peterlevine.ws?p=35294

(Makes a case for pluralism, not neutrality.)

It is better to live as if one’s life were a story, yet many people cannot live that way:

peterlevine.ws?p=35270

(with references to Kant, Arendt, Habermas, and Jonathan Lear)

What Counts as Success? Assessing the Impact of Civics in Higher Ed | Peter Levine

webinar: What Counts as Success? Assessing the Impact of Civics in Higher Ed peterlevine.ws?p=35266

can AI solve “wicked problems”? | Peter Levine I’ve been reading predictions that artificial intelligence will wipe out swaths of jobs–see Josh Tyrangiel in The Atlantic or Jan Tegze. Meanwhile, this week, I’m teaching Rittel & Webber (1973), the ...

can AI solve "wicked problems"?

peterlevine.ws?p=35246

Karl Jaspers on collective responsibility and polarization: peterlevine.ws?p=35215

some upcoming talks on democracy and civic education | Peter Levine These talks are open to the public: March 2, at Boston University, the Center for Media Innovation & Social Impact (MISI) is hosting me for “Civics in the Classroom.” I will talk about how to study ci...

some upcoming talks on democracy and civic education:

peterlevine.ws?p=35222

How Walter Benjamin, the Hebrew prophets, and Marx think about the future. (And the value of having a vivid vision of what will come): peterlevine.ws?p=35195

priorities of liberals and conservatives | Peter Levine

postmaterialism measures for liberals and conservatives in 1994, 2010, 2021: peterlevine.ws?p=35187

Summit on Civics in Higher Education, April 10 at Tufts: peterlevine.ws?p=35184

the case for viewpoint diversity: peterlevine.ws?p=35172

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: 2026 Institute for Civically Enngaged Research | Peter Levine

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: The 2026 APSA Institute for Civically Engaged Research, Los Angeles, CA, July 13-16. Information on how to apply--by April 15, 2026--is here: peterlevine.ws?p=35168