Civic education is broken, and our democracy is paying the price
Too many Americans cannot explain why their healthcare is twice the cost of what comparable democracies pay, why their wages have stagnated for forty years, or how economic power shapes political outcomes.
We are here to change that.
The Four Pillars of American Citizenship
Every citizen interacts with political and economic systems through four roles simultaneously: as a voter, a consumer, a worker, and an owner. A healthcare policy is not just a political issue. It is a consumer market, a workplace for millions, and a source of profit for shareholders. The Four Pillars framework gives anyone a concrete, repeatable method for analyzing any system across all four dimensions. No existing civic education integrates democratic and economic analysis this way.
Votership
Your power at the ballot box
Consumership
Your power in the marketplace
Workership
Your power in the workplace
Ownership
Your stake in the economy
Education and advocacy, rooted in structural analysis
NewCivics operates across two dimensions. We build structural literacy through education. We advance structural reform through advocacy. Both are necessary. Both reinforce each other.
Building structural literacy
Curriculum, textbooks, and a university certificate program that teach people to analyze the systems that shape their lives, not just name the institutions that govern them.
See projectsStructural reform, worked out to the last detail
Policy frameworks, constitutional reform, and economic analysis that demonstrate what structural change looks like when every detail is worked out.
See projectsNewCivics is a program of the Unbound Scholars Foundation, an academic freedom nonprofit committed to protecting education from political, religious, and corporate interference.