WetheP, Inc.

WetheP, Inc. We help people create culture change. By connecting people around shared passions for collaborative progress. Why is WetheP needed Now?

Shared culture is richly complex, but power conflicts separate people. Polarized Politics undermines citizens’ critical problem solving abilities. Apathy, Anger and Inertia are prevailing characteristics of citizenship. Sustained change happens in ongoing and ever-evolving relationships.
‘Common people’ relational power can be compounded via new media. Collective success requires many interconnected and organized efforts.

Peter Levine Blog
08/19/2021

Peter Levine Blog

It is good that Americans disagree about civic education. We are a free and diverse people who care about youth and the future of our republic. Agreement is not to be expected and could even be problematic. The question is whether we can disagree well while also giving our students an appropriate ar...

Peter Levine Blog
08/17/2021

Peter Levine Blog

Science is at the heart of several of our hardest issues, including COVID-19 and global warming. (And even race and policing.) While some Americans display 'Science is real' yard signs on their front lawns, Dr. Fauci is the face of oppression for others. The question of science is not simple. On one...

Peter Levine Blog
08/12/2021

Peter Levine Blog

Amy Cabrera Rasmussen, Valeria Sinclair-Chapman, and I co-direct the American Political Science Association's Institute for Civically Engaged Research (ICER). The 2021 Institute took place online, and Political Science Now has published an article about it. The first cohort assembled in 2019, and me...

Peter Levine Blog
08/10/2021

Peter Levine Blog

There is much writing--from a variety of ideological perspectives--about a new elite that is said to dominate culture, politics, and the economy. This group obviously bears a resemblance to previous elites (and disproportionately descends from parents who were wealthy and powerful), but perhaps it d...

Peter Levine Blog
07/31/2021

Peter Levine Blog

Let's say that a religion consists of beliefs--and, often, practices--that many people consider deeply important and that unite them as a community. By this definition (derived from Durkheim), communism and some forms of patriotism may be religions, but there is no such thing as a solitaire religion...

Peter Levine Blog
07/29/2021

Peter Levine Blog

One way to think about the power of any legislature is the decisions it can make--for instance, to raise or lower taxes or to ban or legalize various things. Its power is almost always limited by other institutions, such as an executive or courts. And its power is finite, which means that the distri...

Peter Levine Blog
07/27/2021

Peter Levine Blog

One should accept the advice of those who are able to direct others, who offer unsolicited aid. One should be the pupil of everyone all the time.- Shantideva, The Bodhicaryavatara 5:74, translated by Kate Crosby and Andrew Skilton (ca. 700 CE) The fifth book of this major work is devoted to 'The Gua...

Peter Levine Blog
07/23/2021

Peter Levine Blog

How long people expect to live could be important for at least two reasons. First, individuals may know information about their own circumstances that affect their predictions. Maybe they know that they are sick or in frequent danger from gun violence. In that case, their prediction of their own lif...

Peter Levine Blog
07/22/2021

Peter Levine Blog

Last year, I had a chance to add this question to the Tufts national survey of equity: Imagine that someone summarized your life, long after your lifetime. To what extent do you already know what that summary would say? I was interested in how people's life circumstances might lead them to answer th...

Peter Levine Blog
07/16/2021

Peter Levine Blog

In The Sound of Two Hands Clapping, Georges B.J. Dreyfus describes Tibetan monasteries as homes for 'scholasticism,' using a word originally coined to describe a form of Catholic thought and practice that was most influential in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries--later to be mocked and repudia...

Peter Levine Blog
07/14/2021

Peter Levine Blog

Apparently, at public meetings about social studies curricula, some people are saying: 'Just teach facts.' Insofar as this call is coming from people incensed about Critical Race Theory in our k-12 schools, the irony is hard to ignore. CRT is very rarely, if ever, taught, and some of the ideas being...

Peter Levine Blog
07/10/2021

Peter Levine Blog

The Economist/YouGov has released a survey of 1,500 U.S. Adult Citizens (fielded from June 13 - 15, 2021) that asks some questions about Critical Race Theory (CRT). This is their summary. This issue is deeply partisan and breaks in Republicans' favor. Eighty-five percent of Republicans are very unfa...

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