Tag: Rachel Maddow

  • Civic Variations on the Fact, Value, Strategy Distinction

    Civic Variations on the Fact, Value, Strategy Distinction

    When civic studies scholars write about civics and citizens, as Peter Levine does today, we will usually mention the following trinity: facts, values, and strategies. Here’s Levine: The citizen is committed to affecting the world. Some important phenomena may be beyond her grasp, so that she sees them but sees no way of changing them. But…