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Rebuilding Democracy from the Bottom Up

Brook Manville, historian, consultant, and author of The Civic Bargain: How Democracy Survives, profiles Rich and the Campaign for the New Civic Path on his Substack, The Civic Bargain.

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The New Civic Path with Rich Harwood

Rich appears on the Circulating Ideas podcast to discuss the New Civic Path and the critical role libraries play in our communities.

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Are We on the Verge of an American Combustion?

We Americans are increasingly consumed by troubling questions: How can we work with others we disagree with? Will anything positive happen right now in our communities, let alone the country? And how do we navigate the relentless negativity pouring in from the media, social media, and our toxic national politics?

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Ditch Grand Strategies and Focus on How Change Really Happens

In The Chronicle of Philanthropy, Rich opines that philanthropy reflexively tries to solve problems with sweeping plans, but should instead, fix what matters most to people to set off a chain reaction of community-driven action.

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Selma Can Be America’s Beacon of Hope Once More

In 1965, Selma, AL, pierced the consciousness of the nation when civil rights marchers crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Today—amid our crisis of belief and widespread societal turmoil—Selma can remind us of the work we need to do as individuals, as communities, and as a nation.

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The Sages Among Us

Check out Rich’s appearance on the Sages Among Us.

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Why We Must Revive Decency

In his latest for the Fulcrum, Rich Harwood asserts that the notion of decency implicates all of us. We simply cannot move forward together if we continue to sacrifice, set aside, or trample on decency.

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Where Is the “Real America”?

As a battle rages over the simple question of whether there is such a thing as the “real America”, in his latest for the Fulcrum, Rich Harwood argues there is a real America. One that he works in every day.

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