by jpitney | Oct 21, 2021 | Civil Rights, Debate, Free Speech, Higher Education
Michael Powell at NYT: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology invited the geophysicist Dorian Abbot to give a prestigious public lecture this autumn. He seemed a natural choice, a scientific star who studies climate change and whether planets in distant solar...
by jpitney | Jul 23, 2021 | Biden, Civility, Debate
By Hannah R. Pitney I’ve been on my school’s debate team for over three years. In that time, I’ve competed in many different debate formats, and I’ve watch teammates participate in the types that I haven’t done myself. There’s Public Forum, Lincoln Douglas,...
by jpitney | Jul 9, 2021 | Civic Education, civic virtue, Congress, Debate, Deliberation
Daniel Stid at National Affairs: American politicians must do more to defend our political system. One way to do so is by upholding the range of competing viewpoints as a feature, not a bug, of our democracy. The diversity of views that will inevitably characterize an...
by jpitney | Sep 30, 2020 | Civility, Debate
Lisa Riley Roche at The Deseret News: The two major-party candidates in the Utah governor’s race, Republican Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox and Democratic University of Utah law professor Chris Peterson, stressed their differences on the state’s response to COVID-19 Tuesday...
by jpitney | Aug 27, 2020 | Congress, Coronavirus, Debate, Deliberation, House of Representatives
Susan Ferrechio at The Washington Examiner: New House rules permitting lawmakers to vote both by proxy and remotely, without ever coming to the Capitol, were intended to allow Congress to function more safely during the coronavirus outbreak. But some lawmakers have...
by jpitney | Feb 12, 2020 | Congress, Debate, Deliberation
Yuval Levin at AEI: Members consequently use their positions to build personal brands and to excite fans and followers. But these trends have been greatly exacerbated by a further transformation that does not get enough attention: the loss of protected spaces...
