by jpitney | Jun 5, 2020 | Crime
President George W. Bush: Laura and I are anguished by the brutal suffocation of George Floyd and disturbed by the injustice and fear that suffocate our country. Yet we have resisted the urge to speak out, because this is not the time for us to lecture. It is time for...
by jpitney | Jun 4, 2020 | Civic Education, civic virtue, History, Lincoln
Yuval Levin at National Review: A fuller sense of our own history must include a sense of the history of racial oppression in our country—a story which has not ended by any means. But it must also include a sense of the history of struggle against racial oppression, a...
by jpitney | Jun 3, 2020 | Civic Education, civic virtue, Civility, Coronavirus, Tocqueville, Volunteering
Daniel Stid at The Art of Association: Viewing civil society through the distorting lenses of our polarized and nationalized politics, and via media that are part of the fray, yields a bleak perspective. These lenses emphasize conflict and suggest what happens in...
by jpitney | Jun 2, 2020 | Coronavirus, Journalism
From the Press Emblem Campaign: More than 127 journalists have died from coronavirus in three months in 31 countries, the Press Emblem Campaign (PEC) announced in Geneva on Tuesday. Latin America is the most affected region. “Media workers have an important role to...
by jpitney | Jun 1, 2020 | civic virtue, Civility
William Kristol at The Bulwark: In making his point, my friend recalled Rodney King’s famous statement from May 1, 1992, made as riots convulsed Los Angeles: People, I just want to say, you know, can we all just get along? Can we get along? Can we stop making it,...
by jpitney | May 30, 2020 | civic virtue, Civility
The 1861 Inaugural: We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and...
by jpitney | May 29, 2020 | Journalism
by jpitney | May 28, 2020 | Coronavirus, Journalism
What are the global consequences of censoring journalists during a pandemic – and what danger does this pose to civil liberties? Join Thomson Reuters Foundation CEO Antonio Zappulla and Joel Simon, the Executive Director of the Committee to Protect Journalists...
by jpitney | May 27, 2020 | civic virtue, Civility, Coronavirus, Public Opinion
At The Atlantic, Peter Wehner talks to social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, who acknowledges partisan polarization but notes other, more promising, signs. … Haidt pointed out that several surveys, including one in April by More in Common, show that the pandemic...
