Editing Richard Dreyfuss (section)

=== Interests ===
Dreyfuss seeks to revive [[civics]] education to teach future generations about the power of their citizenship and the principles that hold America together.<ref name="thedreyfussinitiative.org">http://www.thedreyfussinitiative.org/initiative/ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150908002556/http://www.thedreyfussinitiative.org/initiative/ |date=September 8, 2015 }} TDCI Website</ref> In 2006, he created The Dreyfuss Civics Initiative (TDCI).<ref name=KUSI_TDI>{{cite news|title=Special Report: Actor Richard Dreyfuss says America needs civics lesson|url=http://www.kusi.com/story/26389738/special-report-actor-richard-dreyfuss-says-america-needs-civics-lesson|agency=KUSI News|publisher=WorldNow and KUSI|date=August 27, 2014|access-date=June 30, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304065153/http://www.kusi.com/story/26389738/special-report-actor-richard-dreyfuss-says-america-needs-civics-lesson|archive-date=March 4, 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=AP_TDI>{{cite news|title=Richard Dreyfuss: Politics Should Be Noble Calling|url=http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2014/08/21/richard-dreyfuss-politics-should-be-noble-calling/|agency=Associated Press|work=CBS News|date=August 21, 2014}}</ref> TDCI is a [[501(c) organization#501(c)(3)|501(c)3 designated organization]], recognized as of 2008.<ref name="huffingtonpost.com">{{Cite web |title=HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News |url=https://www.huffpost.com/ |access-date=January 18, 2023 |website=HuffPost}}</ref>

In 2006, he spoke at The [[National Press Club (USA)|National Press Club]] in [[Washington, D.C.]], in hopes of prompting a national discussion on [[Federal impeachment in the United States|impeachment]] charges against U.S. President [[George W. Bush]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/03/30/18123631.php|title=Richard Dreyfus at the National Press Club|publisher=[[San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center]]}}</ref> Later that year, Dreyfuss appeared on [[HBO]]'s ''[[Real Time with Bill Maher]]'' as a panel member to discuss teaching Civics in schools.<ref>{{cite web |first=Michele |last=Morris |url=http://www.aarp.org/about_aarp/nrta/livelearn/richard_dreyfuss.html |title=Richard Dreyfuss's New 'Opus' |publisher=[[AARP]] |date=Summer 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071014114855/http://www.aarp.org/about_aarp/nrta/livelearn/richard_dreyfuss.html |archive-date=October 14, 2007}}</ref> In 2007, Dreyfuss appeared in the youth voting documentary film ''[[18 in '08]]''.{{citation needed|date=May 2023}}

In 1995, Dreyfuss co-authored (with [[Harry Turtledove]]) ''[[The Two Georges]]'', a novel in which the [[American Revolution]] had been peacefully avoided.<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-312-85969-5 |title=Fiction Book Review: The Two Georges by Richard Dreyfuss, Author, Wallace, Author, Harry Turtledove, With Tor Books |date=January 3, 1996 |access-date=December 31, 2018 |journal=[[Publishers Weekly]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.uchronia.net/label/dreytwogeo.html|title=Uchronia: The Two Georges|publisher=Uchronia}}</ref>  In 2022, he wrote ''One Thought Scares Me...: We Teach Our Children What We Wish Them to Know; We Don't Teach Our Children What We Don't Wish Them to Know'' about the teaching of civics in American schools.