July 27, 2011 Teaching How to Think About Policy One of the things that the Interactivity Foundation does is to teach people how to think about public policy possibilities. This will sound patronizing only if you misunderstand why, what,...
June 9, 2011 Interactivity of Ideas There are many different kinds of the interactivity going on in IF public discussions. But the interactivity of ideas is one of the most important ones. Our reports are developed...
April 1, 2011 ‘You lie!’ On this April Fools’ Day, I have been thinking about people lying, and accusing other people of lying, and human folly in general. There are all sorts of lies: white...
March 3, 2011 What could we do? vs What should we do? ‘What should we do?’ seems to be a fulcrum of our public discussions today. This is a question that is raised in the streets of Madison and Washington alike. The...
February 9, 2011 What Makes a Policy Possibility Worthwhile to Discuss? I recently participated in a conference on immigration policy in Washington DC. One of the speakers forestalled criticism by saying that his recommendations were neither new nor original, and that...
January 10, 2011 What’s in it for the panelists? I have almost completed recruiting panelists for my new project on Human Migration. All of the panelists I have recruited are enthusiastic about the project. But I am still looking...
December 1, 2010 IF Audiences The Interactivity Foundation (IF) focuses upon three major discussion areas: sanctuary project discussions designed to develop public policy possibilities in our selected areas of concern, public discussions of the contrasting...
November 4, 2010 There are policy discussions and then there are policy discussions Election time is probably the time when people hear and talk about policy the most. So you may feel that you have already heard way too much about policy debates...
October 6, 2010 What’s Different About IF Policy Discussions? The Interactivity Foundation (IF) promotes the thoughtful consideration of a wide range of conceptually contrasting policy possibilities in selected areas of concern. One way that we do this is through...