by jpitney | Oct 28, 2019 | Mass Media, Uncategorized
James Madison, The Report of 1800, January 7, 1800. Some degree of abuse is inseparable from the proper use of every thing; and in no instance is this more true, than in that of the press. It has accordingly been decided by the practice of the states, that it is...
by jpitney | Oct 27, 2019 | Deliberation, Public Opinion, Uncategorized
James Fishkin and Larry Diamond at NY Times: What if we had civil and evidence-based dialogue across our great divides of party, ideology and identity? The project America in One Room was a national experiment to find out. Over a long weekend in September, we had a...
by jpitney | Oct 26, 2019 | Civility, Congress, Uncategorized
Former Representative Trey Gowdy on the late Elijah Cummings: There are more than a few YouTube videos of Elijah and me disagreeing with each other over the years. Unfortunately, there are no videos capturing his calls of encouragement to me. Or of me pushing him in...
by jpitney | Oct 25, 2019 | Deliberation, Uncategorized
From C-SPAN: de·lib·er·ate v. :to think about or discuss issues and decisions carefully Welcome to C-SPAN Classroom Deliberations! This website is designed to engage students in classroom deliberations about current issues being debated in the United States. Here you...
by jpitney | Oct 24, 2019 | Congress, Uncategorized
Yale historian Joanne Freeman is author of The Field of Blood. At The New York Times last year, she wrote about physical violence on Capitol Hill. Some of the furor wasn’t slavery related; antebellum America was inherently violent, as was its politics, and Congress...
