The same is true of civic virtue, for it implies not only a careful use of our rights but also a respect for — and deference to — the rights of others. I don’t know what to do about the lack ...

For Rush, like other founders, civic virtue in elected representatives was not a call to piety or prayer. It was a duty, understood since the first decades of democracy in ancient Greece, to ...

Only when a critical mass of us brings these essential civic virtues to our common life will we be able to come together to take on the second challenge of renewing our democracy—the challenge of ...

In an effort to counter so-called “liberalism,” postwar conservatives such as William F. Buckley substituted religion for the classical ideas of republican virtue and civic responsibility that ...

It is possible to have private virtues, but I do not believe it is possible to have an effective society without civic virtue. Christmas and New Year's holiday schedule released by city of Amarillo.

Only by valuing civic virtues can we begin to explore what it might mean to make K-12 ... (It’s because of their ability to ignore the standardization that the schools I most respect were ...

Unfortunately, these virtues have been pretty far removed from preoccupations of much contemporary civic education. In fact, much that passes for “civic education” has little time for these ...

A healthy democracy requires civic morality. Absent a set of virtues, principles and norms, our constitutional order falls apart like an IKEA bed that’s missing screws.