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A Citizen's Syllabus

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A Citizen's Syllabus

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May 05, 2020

Expand the Congress!

May 05, 2020/ Andy Zehner
Expand the Congress!

The problem won’t go away when the pandemic dies down.

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May 05, 2020/ Andy Zehner/
April 26, 2020

Reasons to support Trump

April 26, 2020/ Andy Zehner
Reasons to support Trump

Trump supporters have their reasons.

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April 26, 2020/ Andy Zehner/
citizenship, duties of a citizen, Trump, Donald Trump, Bandy X, Bandy Lee
April 24, 2020

America is not in great shape

April 24, 2020/ Andy Zehner
America is not in great shape

The fact that the written-down law doesn’t say he can do what he’s doing doesn’t constrain him.

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April 24, 2020/ Andy Zehner/
April 18, 2020

The president can do what he wants

April 18, 2020/ Andy Zehner
The president can do what he wants

Presidents can do what the Constitution explicitly authorizes them to. But they can also do whatever they can get away with.

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April 18, 2020/ Andy Zehner/
April 10, 2020

Compared to what?

April 10, 2020/ Andy Zehner
Compared to what?

What does a person need to know to think reasonably about the 2020 coronavirus pandemic?

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April 10, 2020/ Andy Zehner/
coronavirus, covid-19, Washington Post, Fareed Zacharia, Center for Disease Control, epiatemology, epistemology
March 25, 2020

Who's an oligarchy?

March 25, 2020/ Andy Zehner
Who's an oligarchy?

Desperate times call for desperate measures. But what happened overnight was not democracy in action.

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March 25, 2020/ Andy Zehner/
democracy, US Senate, McConnell, coronavirus, corona virus, legislative process
March 10, 2020

Resurgence!

March 10, 2020/ Andy Zehner
Resurgence!

Many things are true, and sometimes things that seem to be the exact opposites of one another can be true at the same time.

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March 10, 2020/ Andy Zehner/
Epistemology
Mitch Daniels, Washington Post, Indiana, economic growth, midwest, Midwest
March 08, 2020

Expert Error: Easter Island

March 08, 2020/ Andy Zehner
Expert Error: Easter Island

Faced with a complex issue, reporters will grab onto the little piece of the issue they understand, and pretend that it is the whole story.

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March 08, 2020/ Andy Zehner/
March 05, 2020

Trump v. the Bureaucracy

March 05, 2020/ Andy Zehner
Trump v. the Bureaucracy

In schoolyard fights, the bully beats the egghead. In Washington, the same thing has happened.

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March 05, 2020/ Andy Zehner/
Trump, Donal Trump, breuacracy, Constitution, Max Weber, Andrew McCabe, Teh Atlantic, articles, recommendation, The Onion
February 22, 2020

Populism v. Progressivism

February 22, 2020/ Andy Zehner
Populism v. Progressivism

Populists believe the system is broken. Progressives believe government can fix it.

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February 22, 2020/ Andy Zehner/
Epistemology
populism, progressivism, Jill Lepore, The Jungle, Upton Sinclair
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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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