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Peter Levine

@peterlevine.bsky.social
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Tufts professor of Political Science and Philosophy & Tisch College Associate Dean. Blogging since 2003 at peterlevine.ws

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Peter Levine @peterlevine.bsky.social · 17h
a deliberative response to Trump's building projects? peterlevine.ws?p=36370
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Peter Levine @peterlevine.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
public intellectuals and the fickle food of fame peterlevine.ws?p=36340
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Peter Levine @peterlevine.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Civic Studies and the Black Intellectual Tradition peterlevine.ws?p=36322
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Civic Studies and the Black Intellectual Tradition | Peter Levine
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Peter Levine @peterlevine.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
the university between a club good and the commons: peterlevine.ws?p=36301
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Peter Levine @peterlevine.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
do the liberal arts accomplish civic education? peterlevine.ws?p=36290
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do the liberal arts accomplish civic education? | Peter Levine
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Peter Levine @peterlevine.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Frontiers of Democracy conference 2026 peterlevine.ws?p=36282
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Frontiers of Democracy 2026 | Peter Levine
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Peter Levine @peterlevine.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
two futures for AI, work, and learning peterlevine.ws?p=36231
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Peter Levine @peterlevine.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Notes on Wendell Berry's "September 2" peterlevine.ws?p=36238
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Wendell Berry, September 2 | Peter Levine
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Peter Levine @peterlevine.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
navigating the social sciences: peterlevine.ws?p=36189
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Peter Levine @peterlevine.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
my review of Karpowitz and Patterson, The Politics of Individualism: peterlevine.ws?p=36194
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Peter Levine @peterlevine.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The Daedalus special issue on "How Do We Renovate American Democracy at the 250th?" includes my piece on “Building Institutions to Improve Civic Culture”: peterlevine.ws?p=36176
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Peter Levine @peterlevine.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
the humanities for specialists and for everyone: peterlevine.ws?p=36159
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Peter Levine @peterlevine.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Does reflective patriotism depend on a positive assessment of one's country’s history? peterlevine.ws?p=36146
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Peter Levine @peterlevine.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
on translation as spiritual practice peterlevine.ws?p=36072
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Peter Levine @peterlevine.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Universities Must Start Graduating More Good Citizens, by Anna Saavedra and Peter Levine peterlevine.ws?p=36069
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Peter Levine @peterlevine.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
proposa for a civic common reading program: peterlevine.ws?p=36044
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Peter Levine @peterlevine.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
the Gulf equilibrium: peterlevine.ws?p=36005
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Peter Levine @peterlevine.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
where is the attention? peterlevine.ws?p=35945
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Peter Levine @peterlevine.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Preparing for a threat to the fall election: peterlevine.ws?p=35941 Responses to the threat @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social has named.
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Peter Levine @peterlevine.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
what it would take for the public to trust science peterlevine.ws?p=35917
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Peter Levine @peterlevine.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
paradigms of attention: peterlevine.ws?p=35895 (with the Invisible Gorilla and quotes from von Neumann, Simone Weil, and @graham1960.bsky.social )
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Peter Levine @peterlevine.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
profiles of engaged scholars peterlevine.ws?p=35887
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Peter Levine @peterlevine.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
a power map for civically engaged research in political science: peterlevine.ws?p=35878
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Peter Levine @peterlevine.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
there will always be an England (updates on the developing Posh George story, with a digression on Count Binface) peterlevine.ws?p=35868
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Peter Levine @peterlevine.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Propose a Session for the Frontiers of Democracy conference in 2026 peterlevine.ws?p=35856
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Peter Levine @peterlevine.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The essay linked below elaborates on 10 points: 1. Our habitat exhibits temporal regularities 2. We perceive rhythms 3. Our ideas of time are deeply cultural 4. Our direct perceptions of temporal regularities are imperfect 5. We use tools to measure time ... peterlevine.ws?p=35837
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ten thoughts about time | Peter Levine
[Caveat: there is a large literature on the philosophy of time that I have not investigated carefully. The following thoughts may be naive.] Like all species on this planet, we evolved in an environme...
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Peter Levine @peterlevine.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
why the humanities could never be automated: peterlevine.ws?p=35823
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Peter Levine @peterlevine.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
videos and articles from our spring summit on civics in higher education: peterlevine.ws?p=35793
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Peter Levine @peterlevine.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
comparing the EU, the UK and the USA: peterlevine.ws?p=35757
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Peter Levine @peterlevine.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
honor, shame and Southern Christianity: peterlevine.ws?p=35797 (on the use of Ruth Benedict's concept in current evangelical thought) @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social
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Peter Levine @peterlevine.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
effortful attention and moral responsibility peterlevine.ws?p=35781
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Peter Levine @peterlevine.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
taking stock of US green energy policy peterlevine.ws?p=35776
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Peter Levine @peterlevine.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
universities and newsrooms as laboratories or debating societies peterlevine.ws?p=35769
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Peter Levine @peterlevine.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Americans' attitudes on the Bicentennial and at age 250 peterlevine.ws?p=35759
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Peter Levine @peterlevine.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
How markets predict news. (Why the S&P has risen during the current war.) peterlevine.ws?p=35744
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how markets predict news | Peter Levine
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Peter Levine @peterlevine.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
is your consciousness a stream? peterlevine.ws?p=35739
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Peter Levine @peterlevine.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
the worlds we can lose when intelligence becomes artificial: peterlevine.ws?p=35714
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Peter Levine @peterlevine.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
notes on the papal encyclical on AI: peterlevine.ws?p=35700
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Peter Levine @peterlevine.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
attitudes about AI by age: peterlevine.ws?p=35664
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Peter Levine @peterlevine.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
an overview of civics in higher education peterlevine.ws?p=35679
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Peter Levine @peterlevine.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
people as clusters of attention: peterlevine.ws?p=35640
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Peter Levine @peterlevine.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
www.nationalcivicleague.org/ncr-article/...
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Will AI Solve Our Wicked Problems? - National Civic League
As artificial intelligence promises to automate ever more of our decision-making, complex, "wicked problems" may be exactly where human judgment remains irreplaceable — and where ceding authority to m...
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Peter Levine @peterlevine.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
is Black Studies Civic Studies? peterlevine.ws?p=35627 (replying to @anecdotal.bsky.social)
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is Black Studies Civic Studies? | Peter Levine
Hollis Robbins has a great article about the relationship between Black Studies and Civic Studies or Civic Thought programs. This is a timely question, since Civic Thought initiatives are growing rapi...
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Peter Levine @peterlevine.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
The Tangle (a loose rendition of Linked Discourses 1.23 from the Pali Canon) peterlevine.ws?p=35611
“Snarled, knotted—these neurons got as tangled
As the hair on top. The living are snagged
In their own matted mess, they are this thatch.
Who, I ask you, can fix such a tangle?”

“A person. Ethical. Concentrating. 
Insightful. Methodical yet ardent.
Someone who has fully accepted this task.
This person can unravel the tangle.

“Desire, hatred, and ignorance fade
While you pay attention to untangling.
Name and form fade, and the gap is gone
Between wish and fact. Then: no more tangle.”
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Peter Levine @peterlevine.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
federal spending and employment after a year of Trump peterlevine.ws?p=35587 (several graphs through 2025 or 2026)
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Peter Levine @peterlevine.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Hannah Arendt's love of the world: peterlevine.ws?p=35566
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Peter Levine @peterlevine.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Notes on Hopkins' "My Own Heart Let Me Have More Pity On": peterlevine.ws?p=35569
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Peter Levine @peterlevine.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
the Gulf War and the energy transition peterlevine.ws?p=35494
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the Gulf War and the energy transition | Peter Levine
Whether the current war in the Persian Gulf pushes the world away from carbon depends on many factors, including the trajectory of the war and the policy responses of many countries. (Since March, Ukr...
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Peter Levine @peterlevine.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
reforming the parties, and especially the Democrats: peterlevine.ws?p=35532
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Peter Levine @peterlevine.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
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...
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Teaching Skepticism in Kyiv and Nablus - Public Seminar
Peter Levin discusses his experiences teaching the philosophy of skepticism in occupied Palestine and Ukraine
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