John O'Brien shared the following Mohawk prayer of thanksgiving.
Citizenship must be rooted in local experiences of active engagement.
The Paideia Proposal was an educational reform plan proposed by Mortimer Adler in the USA.
The struggle for democracy offers us a parallel to the struggle for welfare reform.
Mervyn Peake's novel ‘Mr Pye’ is a wonderful fable on the perils of do-goodery.
We each need the difference of one another.
Our duty to look after our own interests is right and proper.
Lessons from ‘The Declaration of Independence’.
A quote from Hannah Arendt on the importance of concentration camps to totalitarianism.