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The right of peaceable assembly has been at the heart of the struggle of African American equality throughout our nation’s history. When honored, it has yielded important protections. When breached, it has facilitated widespread and systematic oppression.
This may sound crazy, but what's the difference between tracking your daily prayer life with an app and doing so with another set of repeatable instructions, such as the Benedictine Rule and its set of daily readings and reminders to ponder God?
These representative acts of public judgment were meaningful in ways that transcend the unjust system. The world was watching and that was significant.
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In Peter Levine's new book, he offers guidance and insights for renewing the civic landscape around citizen deliberation and participation.
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Interview with Professor William Sherman on the importance of architecture in urban life.
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Urban renewal programs, along with the social welfare policies of the Great Society, became a symbol not just of the collapse of urban America but also of the failure of progressive government action—perhaps even of liberalism itself.