by jpitney | Feb 18, 2021 | Biden, Congress
Nan Swift at R Street: President Biden deserves credit for resisting the calls of others in his party to wipe out $50,000 in student loan debt per borrower “with the flick of a pen,” as Politico reports. So far, it appears the president intends to work with Congress...
by jpitney | Feb 6, 2021 | Biden, Civility
John Froonjian, executive director of the William J. Hughes Center for Public Policy at Stockton University, at The Press of Atlantic City: Last May, the William J. Hughes Center for Public Policy at Stockton University launched a series of group discussions about the...
by jpitney | Feb 4, 2021 | Biden, Journalism
Morgan Gstalter at The HIll: Nearly all of the members of Maryland’s congressional delegation signed a letter to President Biden on Thursday asking him to posthumously award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to the five people killed in the Capital Gazette newsroom...
by jpitney | Feb 1, 2021 | Biden, Civic Education, civic virtue, Civility, Deliberation, Democracy, Polarization
A release from the University of Virginia Center for Politics Responding to President Joe Biden’s inaugural request to end the “uncivil war” in America, the University of Virginia Center for Politics is launching a yearlong national Civility Project in an effort to...
by jpitney | Jan 23, 2021 | Biden, Bipartisanship, Civility
Aaron Rhodes at The Hill: According to University of Chicago sociologist Edward Shils, who died in 1995, civility is “a belief which affirms the possibility of the common good … a virtue expressed in action on behalf of the whole society.” Shils wrote that civility is...
by jpitney | Jan 15, 2021 | Biden, Civility, Lincoln, Rhetroric
Michael Gerson at The Washington Post: How can Biden shape a rhetoric of unity and inclusion in a nation that cannot agree on democratic values, and does not agree on truth itself? He might begin by reading Abraham Lincoln’s first inaugural. Lincoln drew a hard line...
