civic courage Inherently American A symbolic collision looms between faith and power. This project asks: What does it mean to be inherently American and, can media evolve to hold the answer?
harvard Harvard and the Importance of Civic Courage Civic courage is the resolve to uphold democratic values despite risk. Harvard's refusal to yield to political pressure defends academic freedom. It sets a national precedent, showing that moral leadership in crisis protects the integrity of education as well as the future of democracy.
dispatch Forgotten Threads: Public Discourse in a Fraying Republic As America shouts across its divides, the deeper crisis goes unnamed: a loss of moral imagination, shared myth, and the willingness to listen. Beneath the noise lies a silent fracture, one that only truth, spoken with care, can mend.
sempergeist What Liberty Forgets: Reclaiming the Narrative Liberty isn’t a possession of one political party in America-- it’s a fragile thread stretched between opposing truths.
sempergeist The Consequences of Moral Sleepwalking At the heart of the Republic’s Threshold of Covenant lies a moral fracture: liberty for me versus liberty for all. This is more than a crisis; it is a reckoning with memory, fear, and the deliberate choice to return to a story wide enough for us all-- or not.
dispatch When the Guardians Gamble: Power, Trust, and the Shadow of Freedom The torch dims. The shadow grows. What story will we now believe?
signal A Reflection from the Soul of the Republic Smoke rises from old altars. A gate swings open in the dust. The storm is not new, but the silence before it feels different now. Each step taken this week was a wager: on power, on memory, on what we are willing to lose to feel in control.
From Murrow to the Moment: Reviving the Ethos of Public Discourse in the Shadow of Spectacle If liberals and conservatives literally perceive moral reality differently, assigning blame, risk, and responsibility through distinct psychological frames, then objectivity becomes less a standard of truth and more a veil of detachment.
Newsletter AI as Mediator in a Fragmented World Epistemic Denial and The Crisis of Truth in the Digital Age
Podcast Ethics of AI Development: What We Can Learn From a Castabot and the Hell's Angels Exploring Human Bias, Identity, and Responsibility through Archetype and Myth
public policy AI Governance: Challenges for Legislators & Policymakers A practical field guide for civic leaders, educators, and policymakers navigating AI governance. Includes strategy frameworks, an ethical evaluation rubric, stakeholder tools, and readiness checklists, built for trust, transparency, and innovation.