Using this work

Take it. You don't need permission.

Everything on this site exists to be spread. If you have an audience and you think this is worth their time, use it — you do not need to ask, you do not owe anything, and there is nothing to sign.

What you may do

No fee. No exclusivity. No approval process. You do not need to be aligned with us on anything else.

Two conditions

1. Link to the original. Not because of credit — because if we get something wrong, we correct it at the original address. A copy that isn't linked can't be corrected, and a wrong number with our name on it outlives the article.

2. Don't present yourself as the Institute. Say you agree with it, say you're sharing it, say you're building on it. Just don't publish as us. Endorsement and authorship are different things, and keeping them separate protects both of us.

What we will not do

If you want more than the article

There is usually a version that is easier to use than the web page:

These are being prepared. In the meantime nothing here is gated: every page can be copied, translated, re-recorded or rebuilt as it stands, without asking anyone.

Why it is free

Because the argument only works if it travels. A platform that hoards civic education to build its own audience has already chosen its own growth over the thing it claims to care about. If a hundred people teach this better than we do and never mention us, the project has succeeded.