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A Citizen's Syllabus

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December 03, 2019

The worldwide fossil fuels emissions gap

December 03, 2019/ Andy Zehner
The worldwide fossil fuels emissions gap

All the petroleum the planet will ever have — petroleum that the planet took 300 million years to produce — was squandered by two generations.

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December 03, 2019/ Andy Zehner/
December 01, 2019

$23 Trillion in Government Debt

December 01, 2019/ Andy Zehner
$23 Trillion in Government Debt

Should one group of people ever be allowed to borrow money and spend it, then compel other people (who had no part in the decision to borrow and spend) to pay the debt for them?

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December 01, 2019/ Andy Zehner/
November 28, 2019

Republic v. Democracy

November 28, 2019/ Andy Zehner
Republic v. Democracy

The founding fathers, including the authors of the Constitution, didn’t like direct democracy. But the love of democracy did develop.

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November 28, 2019/ Andy Zehner/
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Republic, Democracy
November 24, 2019

Pelosi's self-serving & defective history lesson

November 24, 2019/ Andy Zehner
Pelosi's self-serving & defective history lesson

Nancy Pelosi is tremendously powerful. Her power doesn’t derive from the consent of the governed, though, because the number of votes she received was insignificant on a national scale.

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November 24, 2019/ Andy Zehner/
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A Citizen's Syllabus

“A truly robust civic education must encompass the full suite of aptitudes necessary for good citizenship. These include a grasp of the history and theory of democracy . . . and critical reasoning skills that help to distinguish true information from false. Other vital elements in good citizenship: a commitment to values such as tolerance and equality that provide standards against which to hold policymakers and policies to account, and a disposition directed toward cooperation and action.”

Johns Hopkins University President Ronald Daniels


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