by jpitney | Mar 29, 2023 | Civility, Deliberation, Higher Education
Johanna Alonso at Inside Higher Ed: Outside of universities, some organizations and researchers have also begun looking into potential solutions to campus speech intolerance. “Transforming Conflict on College Campuses,” a report published by the Aspen...
by jpitney | Mar 28, 2023 | Civility, Deliberation, Uncategorized
Chris Stirewalt at The Dispatch: Five years ago, when my friend Charles Krauthammer announced that he had been diagnosed with terminal cancer and would soon be leaving us to sort life out without his help, Bret Stephens of the New York Times joined the river of...
by jpitney | Mar 24, 2023 | Bipartisanship, Civility, Congress, House of Representatives
Jonathan Mong at The Cornell Daily Sun: In an effort to bring civility and centrist-minded politics to America’s doorstep, former House representatives Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.) and Rep. Max Rose (D-N.Y.) visited campus on Tuesday for a lecture called...
by jpitney | Mar 23, 2023 | Civility
Sarah Burns (a CGU alum) at The Conversation: Republican members of Congress attacking Democrats and Democratic members of Congress attacking Republicans has long been a way for elected officials to grab voters’ attention. But the divisive rhetoric and deeply partisan...
by jpitney | Mar 20, 2023 | Civility, Congress, Deliberation, Public Opinion
Kevin Kosar and John Maxwell Hamilton at AEI: It is one thing to inveigh against the other side of the aisle, and quite another for individuals on the fringes to argue excluding the great mass of Americans from the political process. One way to organize such an...
by jpitney | Mar 19, 2023 | Civility
Michael Scherer and Ashley Parker at WP: “I think now calls for a different style of leadership,” Pence had explained hours earlier in Manchester, during an interview with The Washington Post. “I think this time also calls for a return to the threshold of civility...