by jpitney | May 6, 2021 | civic virtue, Congress, Constitution, Election Security, Elections, Electoral College
Liz Cheney: I am a conservative Republican, and the most conservative of conservative values is reverence for the rule of law. Each of us swears an oath before God to uphold our Constitution. The electoral college has spoken. More than 60 state and federal courts,...
by jpitney | Apr 27, 2021 | civic virtue, Civility
Kristen DelGuzzi at USA Today: More than a year ago — before the pandemic, before two presidential impeachments, before the most divisive election in a generation, before the Capitol attack — we surveyed Americans about their thoughts on the lack of civility and...
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 | Mar 24, 2021 | civic virtue, Civility
John Ray at Montana Standard: This atrophy of civic virtue produces an increasing inability to engage in constructive public deliberation. People no longer base their policy preferences on facts. People don’t think for themselves but rely on social media or...
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...
