Eric Liu, founder and CEO of the Citizen University, has a new TED Talk in which he calls for a “civic religion”, which he describes as “a framework of belief and practice for sustaining democracy.”

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If you’re among the people whom Liu describes as “yearning for a frame of shared purpose and civic spirit,” it’s worth a listen, perhaps all the more so since Liu spent several years early in his career in the partisan role of speechwriter for Bill Clinton’s Whitehouse.

Adolf Gundersen

Adolf Gundersen

Gundersen currently works as Research Director for Interactivity Foundation, an EnCiv partner. Before that he taught courses on democracy as an Associate Professor at Texas A & M University.