Restoring Meaning in an Age of Distrust in News as Relates to Politics
Journalism is failing not from bias alone, but from a deeper unwillingness to confront its own epistemological and cultural blind spots.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
When the Guardians Gamble: Power, Trust, and the Shadow of Freedom
The torch dims. The shadow grows. What story will we now believe?
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.
Sacred Descent of the Warrior
A book by Dennis Stevens, Ed.D.
Beyond the Illusions of Neutrality & Objectivity:
Authoritarianism, AI, Journalism, and the Politics of Conflict
The Death of Objectivity: How American Critical Realism Challenges Journalism’s Naive Realism
American Critical Realism in News as it Relates to Politics