The Patriotism Project: Re-imagining Patriotism for the 21st Century

A four-part series of community conversations exploring the meanings and uses of patriotism in American life and politics.

 May 11: “Reclaiming Patriotism in an Age of Extremes”
Book Talk with Steven B. Smith, Alfred Cowles Professor of Political Science and Professor of Philosophy at Yale University

From the publisher’s description

“The concept of patriotism has fallen on hard times. What was once a value that united Americans has become so politicized by both the left and the right that it threatens to rip apart the social fabric. […] Describing how it is a matter of both the head and the heart, Smith shows how patriotism can bring the country together around the highest ideals of equality and is a central and ennobling disposition that democratic societies cannot afford to do without.” Read more at the publisher’s website.

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Jointly hosted by the Center for Ideas and Society (CIS), the Palm Desert Center and the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UC Riverside and funded by a VOICE grant to CIS from the University of California National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement.

Learn more at ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/patriotismproject