There are moments in the life of a republic when reform is not enough.

What such moments require is not reform, but re-formation.

Americans have spent a generation trying to fix our democracy by fixing our politics. That is precisely why it isn’t working.

The difficulties now visible in American public life are not primarily political. They are a civic. The associations and shared practices that once built the skills of democratic life have eroded in ways no election can repair. Civic Re-Formation is for the people doing that rebuilding, and for the funders, leaders, and stewards who support them.

Twice a month, on civic life and what re-formation looks like in practice.