Join us June 12 at the Union League Club of Chicago, for a special dinner and reception with Bari Weiss. We will explore what it means to pursue truth and reclaim our shared understanding as Americans.
The increasing illiberalism evident on college campuses and other institutions across the country raises an important question: "What values and principles should shape American education, our newsrooms, and our broader culture?"
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Bari Weiss is the founder and editor of The Free Press and host of the podcast Honestly. From 2017 to 2020, Weiss was an opinion writer and editor at The New York Times. Before that, she was an op-ed and book review editor at The Wall Street Journal and a senior editor at Tablet Magazine.
Weiss is the winner of the LA Press Club’s 2021 Daniel Pearl Award for Courage and Integrity in Journalism. She is also the winner of the Reason Foundation’s 2018 Bastiat Prize, which honors writing that “best demonstrates the importance of freedom with originality, wit, and eloquence.” In 2019, Vanity Fair called Weiss the Times’s “star opinion writer.” Weiss is a proud Pittsburgh native. Her first book, How to Fight Anti-Semitism, was the winner of a 2019 National Jewish Book Award.
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Co-Chairs Jack & Goldie Miller
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Peter Bowe & Barbara Stewart
Jamie & Deborah Fellowes
Ambassador Ronald Gidwitz
Diane Hendricks
Jonathan Jonas
Philip Kayman
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Frank Mariani
Harvey L. Miller
Jacob Millner
Todd Ricketts & Sylvie Légère
Michael & Julie Weiser
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Recording now available!
Teaching for Statesmanship
A Virtual Discussion with Shilo Brooks, Michael Promisel,
and Hans Zeiger
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In honor of Civic Learning Week, JMC president Hans Zeiger sat down with Miller Fellows Shilo Brooks (Princeton University) and Michael Promisel (Catholic University of America) to discuss the serious study of statesmanship and how we can integrate it into American classrooms to better educate our future leaders.
Did you miss this exciting webinar?
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READ: "Civics Worthy of America's 250th Birthday"
Michael Weiser / RealClear Education
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JMC Chair Michael Weiser writes for RealClear Education on how we can support K-12 civics teachers as they face challenges in the classroom:
Civics teachers are generally provided with limited educational resources and content-based training while dealing
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with a highly volatile political climate and a culture that disregards what we as Americans hold in common.
We need to work together to find solutions to this crisis of knowledge and this crisis of confidence. We need to support civics teachers in every way we can so they can, in turn, help students become young citizens and take responsibility for self-government...
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READ: "Civics Should Be the Cause of Our Generation"
Hans Zeiger / The Fulcrum
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JMC president Hans Zeiger appeared in The Fulcrum last week, writing on Civic Learning Week and the pre-political questions facing our society:
Now more than ever, it seems, politics demands our attention. It is difficult to predict what developments await us in the coming week, much less the coming years of the Trump presidency. What will the geopolitical order look like by 2028?
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What will the federal government look like? What will the Democratic or Republican Parties look like?
But, intriguing as these questions may be, it is another set of “pre-political” questions that matter most. By pre-political I mean the ethical and civic principles that shape our engagement in matters of politics and policy. What are the constitutional values we must uphold as a free society? What is the purpose of government, and how should we balance it with forces like markets and civil society? How can we find belonging in a community of fellow human beings along with a sense of transcendent meaning and purpose?
In a self-governing republic, questions like these aren’t just important for philosophers in an ivory tower—they’re essential for all of us. After all, we the people are the stewards of our own political union and thus responsible for filling practical roles in its governance that require forethought, study, and skills...
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READ: "Civics Needs Pluralism"
Thomas Kelly / RealClear Education
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Whether one favors traditional public schools or not, those of us doing civics reform must recognize that we are not living in the 1960s anymore, or even the 2010s. This means that an effective movement is going to have to work with our increasingly varied system of education...
if those of us who are working to strengthen civics believe in genuine pluralism, we’re going to have to show it by embracing genuine differences....
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WATCH: "The 2024 National Summit on Civic Education"
A recap of our national gathering this past November
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The third annual National Summit on Civic Education held in Philadelphia in November 2024 aimed to foster a growing movement, focusing on opportunities for collaboration and actionable ideas, especially as we anticipate our nation’s semiquincentennial celebration in 2026.
This video highlights several speakers and participants and their perspective of the unifying work at the National Summit on Civic Education.
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The Jack Miller Center is a nonpartisan educational venture to advance the work of scholars who teach and study the ideas, documents, and history we hold in common as Americans. We seek to grow the talent pipeline of university educators who teach the American political tradition, to forge new models for university-based training of K-12 civics and history teachers, and to build a diverse coalition of Americans to ignite a civic education renaissance.
To learn more about our work, visit jackmillercenter.org.
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