Clare Basil, a Public Interest Fellow working with @RSI, argues in @theammind that "To Save America," we must "Reclaim Civics," and in order to reclaim civics, we must reclaim the study of the human things; we must focus on classical, liberal education: https://americanmind.org/post/to-save-america-reclaim-civics/

"[Calls] for beefing up civics curricula to place greater emphasis upon the facts and institutions of American history are a poor substitute for cultivating the condition of soul that understands the profundity and limits of our nation’s claims to truth in the Declaration."

Basil's article about civics education is subversively an article about classical education. My only quibble is this: it matters HOW one studies "Plato, Aristotle, Thucydides, Xenophon, Cicero, Livy, Plutarch, Augustine," etc. Many of my fellow St. John's alumni read these...

...books and still think "civics is more or less synonymous with activism." One needs to read these thinkers as part of an authoritative tradition of which our own political order is heir and, in many ways, a culmination.