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When We Can't Trust Our Own Eyes
When the Administration doctored Nekima Levy Armstrong’s photo, a crucial civic line was crossed.
Feb 23
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David Blankenhorn
January 2026
Minneapolis Winter
A time of reckoning.
Jan 26
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Against the Sublime: Inuuteq Storch and the Civic Reality of the Arctic
Note: This is the latest in a series of essays we’re sharing by Samuel Abrams focusing on contributors to civic aesthetics -- creators who show how the…
Jan 23
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Samuel J. Abrams
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How Does a Free Society Determine What's True?
What we can learn from the shooting in Minneapolis.
Jan 19
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David Blankenhorn
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December 2025
Martin Parr Saw Who We Really Are
Note: This is the third of three essays by Samuel J.
Dec 19, 2025
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Samuel J. Abrams
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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
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Samuel J. Abrams
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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
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Samuel J. Abrams
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September 2025
C-SPAN Conversation on Charlie Kirk and Political Violence
Sep 12, 2025
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David Blankenhorn
32:25
“A Man’s a Man for a’ that”
An Essential, by Robert Burns
Sep 9, 2025
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David Blankenhorn
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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
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David Blankenhorn
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Muste’s Way
He wanted to see J. Edgar Hoover about communists.
Sep 9, 2025
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David Blankenhorn
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Wilbur’s Idea
He had to see a man about a pig.
Sep 9, 2025
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David Blankenhorn
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