by jpitney | Sep 30, 2020 | Civility, Debate
Lisa Riley Roche at The Deseret News: The two major-party candidates in the Utah governor’s race, Republican Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox and Democratic University of Utah law professor Chris Peterson, stressed their differences on the state’s response to COVID-19 Tuesday...
by jpitney | Sep 30, 2020 | Uncategorized
Don Wolfensberger at The Hill sees some small signs of congressional resurgence: The new push for bipartisan compromise came into stark relief last week when the Democratic leadership scheduled a vote on a continuing appropriations resolution to keep the government...
by jpitney | Sep 29, 2020 | Character, Civic Education, civic virtue
Daniel Stid at The Art of Association: We need some hope and a sense of how we might regain our footing as citizens to renew the world’s oldest democracy. We can find them in a recent report from the American Academy of Arts and Science’s Commission on...
by jpitney | Sep 28, 2020 | Journalism
Last week, the House passed the Fallen Journalists Memorial Act. Marlon Hanson at The Focus Daily News: “Washington has many monuments honoring those who have sacrificed their lives to protect our freedoms – yet, there is no memorial on public land to recognize the...
by jpitney | Sep 27, 2020 | Civility, Deliberation, Uncategorized
Federalist 37: It is a misfortune, inseparable from human affairs, that public measures are rarely investigated with that spirit of moderation which is essential to a just estimate of their real tendency to advance or obstruct the public good; and that this spirit is...
