“We should worry again about the connection between play-starved education and eroded mechanisms for political debate, if worry can lead beyond deadlocks. Too often, academic essays pursue analysis and critique but stop short of speculation about remedies, as if intellectual work excluded an element of creativity. In fact, essays that remain risk-averse miss the potential of the genre to "assay," or try out, ideas.” WritingAestheticsCivicsEssayHumanitiesCitizhenshipIntellectual Work Book:The Work of Art in the World: Civic Agency and Public Humanities Source: The Work of Art in the World: Civic Agency and Public Humanities