{"id":23803,"date":"2020-12-18T12:26:39","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T17:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=23803"},"modified":"2020-12-18T12:53:54","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T17:53:54","slug":"on-civic-renewal-on-the-threshold-of-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=23803","title":{"rendered":"on civic renewal on the threshold of 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here is a recording of \u201cThe Promise of Civic Renewal to Revive our Democracy\u201d on Dec. 10, 2020. It was the final event in the \u201cLet\u2019s Talk about Our Democracy\u201d series, hosted by <a href=\"https:\/\/masshumanities.org\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/masshumanities.org\/\">Mass Humanities<\/a>. I talked with Program Officer Jennifer Hall-Witt about reviving our democracy, focusing on the role that ordinary citizens can play in fostering more deliberative, collaborative, and engaged communities. This conversation was based on <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Are-Ones-Have-Been-Waiting\/dp\/019993942X\/ref=la_B001JS0XWW_1_7?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1369513662&amp;sr=1-7\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Are-Ones-Have-Been-Waiting\/dp\/019993942X\/ref=la_B001JS0XWW_1_7?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1369513662&amp;sr=1-7\">We Are the Ones We have been Waiting For: The Promise of Civic Renewal in America<\/a><\/em>, but we discussed ways in which the situation and my views have changed since that 2013 book. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jmZY_NKCh1U\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>(Incidentally, I will deliver the final manuscript of my next book, <em>What Should We Do? <\/em>at the end of this month. It is meant to complement, not replace, <em>We Are the Ones<\/em>&#8211;adopting a more theoretical and global perspective, whereas <em>We Are the One <\/em>applies the framework specifically to the USA in our time. But that means that the specific strategies of <em>We Are the One<\/em>s need to evolve.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a recording of \u201cThe Promise of Civic Renewal to Revive our Democracy\u201d on Dec. 10, 2020. It was the final event in the \u201cLet\u2019s Talk about Our Democracy\u201d series, hosted by Mass Humanities. I talked with Program Officer Jennifer Hall-Witt about reviving our democracy, focusing on the role that ordinary citizens can play [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio-and-video","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23803"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23811,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23803\/revisions\/23811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}