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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 · 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 · 22/05/2026

attitudes about AI by age: peterlevine.ws?p=35664

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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 · 26/01/2026

"Sadness is a Light Kindled in the Heart" by Hannah Arendt (1943) peterlevine.ws?p=35155

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Peter Levine @peterlevine.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

"Caedmon's Hymn" (the earliest English poem) and modern responses: peterlevine.ws?p=35081

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Peter Levine @peterlevine.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

My translation of "The City" by Constantine Cavafy: peterlevine.ws?p=34920

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Peter Levine @peterlevine.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

If the sky were seen for the first time peterlevine.ws?p=34334

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Peter Levine @peterlevine.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

The Day of My Life peterlevine.ws?p=34250

I wish I did not have that human wish,
The wish that today were a different day,
But the wish that pours forth in the song of a bird:
“May it be this same day, so may it be.”

No, a bird sings not to say but to be.
It grants a wish just by being heard.
I wish I didn’t want the day to stay
Or change. I should, like the bird, just be.

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Peter Levine @peterlevine.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Hannah Arendt, "I’m Nothing but a Little Dot" (translation with notes) peterlevine.ws?p=34083

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Peter Levine @peterlevine.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

building a democracy helpdesk: peterlevine.ws?p=33776

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Peter Levine @peterlevine.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

13. Executive aggrandizement 14. The attention economy 15. Climate change 16. Anxiety about American “exceptionalism All of these trends relate to the same larger problem: the degradation of democracy.

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Peter Levine @peterlevine.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

9. Affective polarization 10. Loneliness 11. COVID hangover 12. Legislative incapacity

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Peter Levine @peterlevine.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

5. Oligarchy 6. Elite capture 7. Regulatory capture 8. Racial backlash

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Peter Levine @peterlevine.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

5. Oligarchy 6. Elite capture 7. Regulatory capture 8. Racial backlash

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Peter Levine @peterlevine.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

16 colliding forces that create our moment 1. Costs of neoliberalism 2. Class inversion (right-wing parties depending on less-educated and less affluent constituencies 3. Right-wing populist authoritarianism: 4. Effective state repression details on each: peterlevine.ws?p=33723

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Peter Levine @peterlevine.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Sociology nerds will know why I found this amusing.

Facebook suggestion that I “friend” Mark Granovetter

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Peter Levine @peterlevine.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Hannah Arendt wrote this poem in the winter of 1925-6, the season when she turned 20 and broke up with her teacher, Martin Heidegger. My translation is below, and some commentary is here: peterlevine.ws?p=33144

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Peter Levine @peterlevine.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

In 2020, people who were civically engaged locally were far more trusting of the media and schools, and less favorable to Trump, than others. Ideology was unrelated to feelings about Trump in this model. To restore democracy, we must increase local engagement. See: peterlevine.ws?p=33182

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Peter Levine @peterlevine.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

happiness, for skeptics peterlevine.ws?p=33092 ... 6. We must embody truths, not merely acknowledge them. (In the essay, I discuss Stevens and Cézanne as models)

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Peter Levine @peterlevine.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

happiness, for skeptics peterlevine.ws?p=33092 2. Compassion combats suffering; 3. Each mind is a ripple in the river of history; 4. We can do things that have outcomes for their own sake; 5. Reality rewards a close and open-minded inquiry; ...🧵

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Peter Levine @peterlevine.bsky.social · 22/04/2024

Experiences of voice in high school predict intention to vote in 2024, but these experiences are unequal by race/ethnicity. More: peterlevine.ws?p=31482

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Peter Levine @peterlevine.bsky.social · 29/03/2024

Mapping a specific organization as a social network and also a belief network: peterlevine.ws?p=31374

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Peter Levine @peterlevine.bsky.social · 13/03/2024

Reading for personal interest is in decline. Some comments here: peterlevine.ws?p=31326

BLS data, available here: https://peterlevine.ws/?p=31326

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Peter Levine @peterlevine.bsky.social · 11/03/2024

"Cephalus" (a poem) peterlevine.ws?p=31297.

Readable text here: https://peterlevine.ws/?p=31297

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Peter Levine @peterlevine.bsky.social · 08/03/2024

For Intl Women's Day: "Zebenna, Wife of Odeantus, a woman of lustie courage, and of great policie in warre ..., in despite of [the Emperor] Galienus (who consumed his life in lyfe in lechery and bankettynge) took on her the governaunce of the easte, and was called Empresse." peterlevine.ws?p=31291

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Peter Levine @peterlevine.bsky.social · 16/02/2024

CIRCLE has published detailed data on young people’s views of the current war in the Middle East. My quick summary: peterlevine.ws?p=31162 Whole report: circle.tufts.edu/latest-resea...

Survey results on youth beliefs about Israel/Palestine. Data available at https://circle.tufts.edu/latest-research/young-voters-and-israel-palestine-conflict

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Peter Levine @peterlevine.bsky.social · 05/12/2023

Americans turned more tolerant of controversial speech, except for racism, from 1976-2018. Since 2020, tolerance for racist & militarist speakers has declined sharply, with the former trend driven by liberals, and the latter bipartisan. Discussed: peterlevine.ws?p=30770

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Peter Levine @peterlevine.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

"Equivocation," by Najwan Darwish, trans. by Kareem James Abu-Zeid. With some notes here: peterlevine.ws?p=30497

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Peter Levine @peterlevine.bsky.social · 09/10/2023

I tried a compressed translation of Sappho #31, with no adverbs, no adjectives as modifiers (only predicates), and the fewest words possible. More context: peterlevine.ws?p=30364

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