Civility and Citizenship

Michael Gerson at The Washington Post: Persuasion, compromise and politeness are for losers. Do unto others as they have done unto you. And worse. Those disturbed by this attitude but not entirely sure why should read Peter Wehner’s new book, “The Death of Politics:...

Internet Freedom

Adrian Shabaz and Allie Funk at Freedom House: Freedom on the Net is a comprehensive study of internet freedom in 65 countries around the globe, covering 87 percent of the world’s internet users. It tracks improvements and declines in internet freedom conditions each...

Populism, Elitism, and the Constitution

Yuval Levin at AEI: Populism and elitism are each in its way a kind of politics of hubris. Each is rooted in a plainly unreasonable view about the capacity of human beings — be it a select class or the people as a whole — to make just the right governing...

Just the Facts

From Facts USA: Each year, USAFacts conducts a poll to assess how Americans feel about facts, data, and where that data comes from. The resulting report, called the State of the Facts poll, provides insights into to how Americans agree and disagree on the nature of...