Archive - Civic Life

Martin Parr Saw Who We Really Are

Note: This is the third of three essays by Samuel J.

Dec 19, 2025 • Samuel J. Abrams

What the Deaths of Frank Gehry and Robert A.M. Stern Tell Us About American Cities

Note: This is the second of three essays by Samuel Abrams focusing the lives of important contributors to American civic aesthetics -- creators who have…

Dec 18, 2025 • Samuel J. Abrams

Ruth Asawa’s Civic Imagination

On the sixth floor of the Museum of Modern Art, Ruth Asawa’s wire sculptures hang like breaths made visible, loops of brass and light suspended between…

Dec 10, 2025 • Samuel J. Abrams

September 2025

C-SPAN Conversation on Charlie Kirk and Political Violence

Sep 12, 2025 • David Blankenhorn

32:25

“A Man’s a Man for a’ that”

An Essential, by Robert Burns

Sep 9, 2025 • David Blankenhorn

Lincoln’s Way

Abraham Lincoln’s political philosophy consisted of only a few ideas, and he believed that America itself was based on these ideas.

Sep 9, 2025 • David Blankenhorn

He wanted to see J. Edgar Hoover about communists.

Sep 9, 2025 • David Blankenhorn

Wilbur’s Idea

He had to see a man about a pig.

Sep 9, 2025 • David Blankenhorn

For Citizenship in Troubled Times

Why this new organization?

Sep 9, 2025 • David Blankenhorn

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