by jpitney | May 26, 2021 | Civic Education, civic virtue, Civility, Public Opinion
From More in Common, Two Stories of Distrust in America: Interpersonal distrust stems from an uncertainty around someone’s motivations and predictability. The root of this uncertainty is the perception that the other person is different and does not share opinions,...
by jpitney | May 20, 2021 | Civic Education, Civility
The Better Arguments Project is a national civic initiative created to help bridge divides – not by papering over those divides but by helping people have Better Arguments. In this sense, arguments don’t have to drive us apart. Better Arguments can bring us together....
by jpitney | Apr 17, 2021 | Civic Education, civic virtue, Civility, Supreme Court
Colin Kalmbacher at Law and Crime: Supreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Neil Gorsuch appeared together during a Zoom presentation in which they both argued that civility in politics is a national security issue. Hosted by the Center for Strategic and...
by jpitney | Feb 9, 2021 | Civic Education, civic virtue, Elections
AEI Scholar Frederick Hess:
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 | 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...
