civic culture begins at dinnertime.
I want to tell you today about my favorite holiday. It’s Passover, and while I’m no longer a practicing Jew (in fact I consider myself a Humanist) I’ve found that […]
Tag Archives: education
2011 taught us to learn in public.
When I wrote this post back in October about living in public, I had no idea how apt it would be! In the following weeks, the #Occupy movement made living […]
on austerity, violence, and what it takes to be a citizen.
Today I want to try to bring together a couple of narrative threads that I’ve been picking up and mulling over lately. I don’t always talk about current events here, […]
entropy + institutions = pop-up democracy
I’ve been really excited and pleased by how much attention and conversation my post on the entropic city has generated. Since then I’ve found a lot of interesting thinking that […]
good jobs.
If you follow my twitter feed, you know that I’ve been thinking about jobs lately. Well, okay, everyone’s thinking about jobs lately. The president’s talking about it, the media’s dancing […]
