by jpitney | Oct 26, 2021 | Conservative', Journalism, Journalists
Anthony Hennen at National Review: First, conservatives need to read more local and state news and less national news. The outrage rags are popular, but they do little beyond ginning up anger and funneling cash to political actors. Local journalists need support....
by jpitney | Oct 25, 2021 | Bipartisanship, Civil War, Civility, Polarization
On C-SPAN, University of Virginia’s “Sabato’s Crystal Ball” managing editor Kyle Kondik discusses a new effort to explore U.S. political polarization, including findings regarding specific policy positions and trust between Democrats and Republicans.
by jpitney | Oct 25, 2021 | Free Speech, Higher Education
Samuel J. Abrams at RealClearEducation: Thanks to the largest data set ever compiled on student’s views toward free speech, we now know that students who attend the nation’s elite schools – those that purportedly thrive in the world of research, innovation and...
by jpitney | Oct 24, 2021 | Civility
J. Scott Raecker, Matt Davidson and Arthur Schwartz at The Desi Moines Register: Civility is more than being polite or avoiding conflict to simply get along. Civility doesn’t mean ignoring conflict, diversity, or difference of opinion. Rather, civility is the...
by jpitney | Oct 23, 2021 | Congress
Kevin Kosar at The Hill: So why is the legislative procedure so complex and opaque? Largely, it is the product of the aggregation of new rules and precedents year after year. The most recent copy of the House’s guide to legislative procedure is more than 1,000 pages...
by jpitney | Oct 21, 2021 | Civil Rights, Debate, Free Speech, Higher Education
Michael Powell at NYT: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology invited the geophysicist Dorian Abbot to give a prestigious public lecture this autumn. He seemed a natural choice, a scientific star who studies climate change and whether planets in distant solar...
by jpitney | Oct 20, 2021 | Bipartisanship, Civility, Congress, House of Representatives
Under the American Congressional Exchange Project at the Bipartisan Policy Center, Members of Congress (MOC’s) who participate agree to visit, for one weekend, a Member of the opposite party in that Member’s district. That member, in turn, reciprocates the following...
by jpitney | Oct 19, 2021 | China, Russia
Anna Massoglia at Open Secrets: Russian media outlets reported spending more than $146 million on foreign influence operations and propaganda in the U.S. since 2016, with over $16 million on propaganda targeting the U.S. in 2021, OpenSecrets’ analysis of new Foreign...
by jpitney | Oct 18, 2021 | Civility
The late Colin Powell joined the board of the National Institute for Civil Discourse ten years ago. The Institute’s release in 2011: Gen. Colin L. Powell, USA (retired), one of America’s most well-known and highly regarded statesmen, has agreed to join...
