by jpitney | Sep 20, 2025 | Civility
Frederick J. Ryan, Jr., director of the Ronald Reagan Center on Civility and Democracy, writes at Fortune: Civility isn’t about avoiding disagreement. It’s about disagreeing well and keeping the difficult moments, whether in a work meeting or at the dinner table,...
by jpitney | Sep 16, 2025 | Civility, Dreier
by jpitney | Sep 16, 2025 | Civility, Congress, Debate
Yuval Levin at AEI: Most days, the outrage motivating progressives on Bluesky is about something conservatives on X haven’t even heard about, and vice versa. Politically active people are at war with caricatures of their opponents, but they are not forced to actually...
by jpitney | Sep 15, 2025 | Bipartisanship, Civility, Congress
Gabby Giffords and Jeff Flake at USAT: Kirk’s supporters are angry – we all are – but in this perilous moment, elected officials wield outsized influence on whether the justified anger at the assassin transforms into malice toward fellow Americans. At a moment when...
by jpitney | Sep 13, 2025 | Civility, Dreier
At KGET in Bakersfield, Eytan Wallace interviews David Dreier about the Dreier Roundtable and the urgent need for civility. Full segment here Excerpt below at 2:25:
by jpitney | Sep 13, 2025 | Bipartisanship, Civility, Utah
Last year, Governor Spencer Cox received the Dreier Roundtable Civility Award. Natasha Korecki, Matt Dixon, Allan Smith and Jonathan Allen at NBC: At a news conference in the days after the assassination of Charlie Kirk in Utah, Gov. Spencer Cox took to the podium to...