Archive - Civic Fields

June 2025

Civil Rights Are Never Enough

A Juneteenth reflection on the political thought of Martin R. Delany

Jun 19 •

A Summer Slow Down

And a big thank you!

Jun 5 •

May 2025

What is Civics For?

Know your rights, but know the goods your rights are supposed to serve

May 29 •

Civility in an Age of Incivility

Can the damage be undone?

May 22 •

Pope Leo’s Pope Leo

A look at Leo XIII’s “New Things”

May 15 •

A meditation on service workers, politics, and “red republicanism”

May 8 •

Choose Your Servitude

On republican freedom

May 1 •

April 2025

The New American Royalism

Or, why Trump is not exactly an authoritarian

Apr 24 •

Authenticity is Overrated

We need a new politics of duty

Apr 17 •

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