by jpitney | Jun 3, 2020 | Civic Education, civic virtue, Civility, Coronavirus, Tocqueville, Volunteering
Daniel Stid at The Art of Association: Viewing civil society through the distorting lenses of our polarized and nationalized politics, and via media that are part of the fray, yields a bleak perspective. These lenses emphasize conflict and suggest what happens in...
by jpitney | Jun 2, 2020 | Coronavirus, Journalism
From the Press Emblem Campaign: More than 127 journalists have died from coronavirus in three months in 31 countries, the Press Emblem Campaign (PEC) announced in Geneva on Tuesday. Latin America is the most affected region. “Media workers have an important role to...
by jpitney | May 28, 2020 | Coronavirus, Journalism
What are the global consequences of censoring journalists during a pandemic – and what danger does this pose to civil liberties? Join Thomson Reuters Foundation CEO Antonio Zappulla and Joel Simon, the Executive Director of the Committee to Protect Journalists...
by jpitney | May 27, 2020 | civic virtue, Civility, Coronavirus, Public Opinion
At The Atlantic, Peter Wehner talks to social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, who acknowledges partisan polarization but notes other, more promising, signs. … Haidt pointed out that several surveys, including one in April by More in Common, show that the pandemic...
by jpitney | May 24, 2020 | Civility, Coronavirus
At Newsweek, Alexandra Hudson writes about Washington’s rules of civility: The novel coronavirus is an excellent example of how individual actions matter most because of their aggregate effects. Civilization is held together by the cumulative effects of our...
by jpitney | May 23, 2020 | civic virtue, Coronavirus, Volunteering
Ryan Streeter and David Wilde at RealClearPolicy: The spirit of American volunteerism has been on display from the very beginning of the coronavirus crisis: Medical workers have flocked to virus hotspots to help; scientists are volunteering to battle the...
