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Although he has put his civic career on hold for the past several decades, Baldwin has remained involved with politics, attending the 1988 Democratic National Convention and working closely with Senator Edward M. Kennedy ‘54-’56 during Kennedy’s 1994 re-election campaign...
...possibilities. Most humanists would be averse to thinking of the humanities as a field for preparing you for other things—that the humanities should be fixed on purposelessness, on disinterested art. The whole mission of Cultural Agents... is about reviving, linking up again the mission of civic development of the humanities. The humanities used to be the obvious place for citizenship preparation,” Sommer says...
...Press believes that the concepts and skills one can develop by actively using the humanities are necessary for civic engagement, mirroring part of the mission of the Harvard Task Force on the Arts. “Giving people outside of Harvard an understanding that the arts are vehicles of exploration is a way of underlying the importance of arts in the development of the curriculum. All of the issues that the Arts Task Force are communicating come alive in an immediate and practical way with the Paper Picker Press. Arts become a way of interpreting, exploring, rehearsing ethics...
...glass dome over our country. We can’t guarantee there won’t be another attack,” Napolitano said. “But making a habit out of preparedness, making it a part of our culture, will ultimately draw on the innovation and civic spirit of the American people...
...some operatives seem to consider this a secondary goal. Instead of endorsing candidates, which would violate the 501(c)(4) stipulation that political campaigns not be such a group's primary purpose, activists like Mandile are taking the long view - preaching civic engagement and educating people about candidates' positions and constitutional principles. "I don't like to focus entirely on November. We're going to lose early battles, and we have lost some," he says. "We're encouraging change at the very local level - in cities, in towns." The goal, he adds, is to "create a farm team, so that...