Writing

The record to date: books, articles, essays, and working papers, with the publication status of each stated plainly.

• Civic ArchitectureBook manuscript, under review for publication
• Cuban American Political Culture and Civic Organizing: Tocqueville in MiamiPalgrave Macmillan, 2018

• “From Public Work to Civic Architecture: Black Institutional Leadership and the Rebuilding of Democratic Infrastructure”The Good Society, forthcoming
• “Public Philosophy for Anxious Times: Reclaiming Popular Democratic Republicanism” (with Nicholas Onuf)Freedom Schools: A Journal of Democracy and Community 3, no. 1 (2026)
• “Public Leadership: The Coalition Principle Design Document”Freedom Schools 3, no. 1 (2026)
• “Media Frames in an Era of the Local”Freedom Schools 1, no. 1 (2024)
• “Welcome to Freedom Schools: A Journal of Democracy and Community”Freedom Schools 1, no. 1 (2024)
• “Tocqueville in Miami: Political Culture and Political Organizing in Miami’s Cuban Community”2010

• “Renewing the American Pledge through Civic Architecture”Harvard ALI Social Impact Review, 2026
• “The Response We Really Need to the Supreme Court’s Gutting of the VRA”Texas Observer, May 2026
• “We Are Reimagining America. We Need to Reimagine Citizenship First”Austin American-Statesman, 2026
• “The Push to Expand School Choice Should Not Diminish Civic Education”The Hechinger Report, 2025
• “Democracy Needs Its Own Language Model” (with Juan E. Ceresa)Medium, 2025

• “Civic Architecture: Designing Institutions for Democratic Capacity”SocArXiv, 2025
• “The Civic LLM Working Paper: A Conversation on the Democratic Future of AI” (with Juan E. Ceresa)SocArXiv, 2025
• “The Democratic Ontology Deficit: How AI Systems Fail to Represent What Democracy Requires” (with Juan E. Ceresa)arXiv, 2026

• Freedom Schools: A Journal of Democracy and CommunityUniversity of Texas Press. Editor.

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