Citizen Leadership

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Bruce Chapman
November 3, 2020
Citizen Leadership
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Politicians: Can’t Live With Them, Can’t Live Without Them

Bruce Chapman
November 3, 2020
Citizen Leadership
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When frustrated by election results, it’s useful to remember why it’s hard to live with politicians but even harder to live without them. Bruce K. Chapman reminds us that “a good political life, in the spirit of the Constitution, aims at a ‘more perfect union,’ not a perfect one.” Read More ›
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USA, VA, Arlington. Gravestones at Arlington National Cemetary.
Scott S. Powell
May 25, 2020
Citizen Leadership
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Memorial Day: Connecting the Past with the Present

Scott S. Powell
May 25, 2020
Citizen Leadership
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The Civil War was America’s most costly war with some 360,222 Union and 258,000 Confederate lives lost. Many historians put the death toll higher, but regardless, the number of Civil War casualties exceeds the nation’s loss in all its other wars combined -- the two World Wars, the Korean and Vietnamese Wars and subsequent wars right up through conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. Read More ›
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Distant view of the gold dome capital building in Olympia, Washington, USA
Hans Zeiger
May 10, 2020
Citizen Leadership
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State Legislature Should Have Stronger Oversight Role During Emergencies

Hans Zeiger
May 10, 2020
Citizen Leadership
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In recent weeks, many citizens have written to me requesting that the Legislature take action to address the COVID-19 crisis. The reality is that the Legislature’s formal power to act in this crisis is limited; it is the governor who has broad authority during times of emergency. As we look to the future, the Legislature must have a much stronger role during emergencies. Read More ›
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woman worker wearing mask
Tom Shakely
April 21, 2020
Citizen Leadership, Human Exceptionalism
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China, the Virus, and the Imperative to Build for Tomorrow

Tom Shakely
April 21, 2020
Citizen Leadership, Human Exceptionalism
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Marc Andreessen's "It's Time To Build" is a hopeful cri de coeur in this time of pandemic. Americans, and American elite leadership specifically, need what strikes me as essentially a spiritual awakening, and Andreessen speaks to that in his own way by pointing out that an ugly aspect of American life that this virus has revealed is a sort of cultural impotence. Read More ›
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Photo by David Mark via Pixabay
Michael Egnor
March 19, 2020
Citizen Leadership, Intelligent Design, Religion and Civic Life
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Upstairs into the Plague

Michael Egnor
March 19, 2020
Citizen Leadership, Intelligent Design, Religion and Civic Life
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I was driving into work this morning and I hit the traffic jam. Every morning at about 6:30 am the traffic begins to back up on the highway leading into my medical center. It’s the morning shift — hundreds of nurses and clerks and aides and orderlies and housekeepers bleary-eyed and guzzling Starbucks and they wait to enter the parking Read More ›