by jpitney | Sep 19, 2024 | Bipartisanship, Congress, Deliberation, House of Representatives
From the Hoover Institution and the Sunwater Institute (among the authors are Matt Glassman of the CMC DC program, and Dave Hoppe): Mission At a time of heightened concern about the strength of our democracy, we cannot ignore the poor health of Congress. Our...
by jpitney | Aug 23, 2024 | Civic Education, Congress, Deliberation
Jordan T. Cash and Kevin J. Burns at Law & Liberty: Civic education has recently taken a remarkable turn for the better, with the flowering of civics institutes in universities across the country which stress the importance of both informed and deliberative...
by jpitney | Aug 14, 2024 | Civility, Deliberation, Higher Education, Middle East, Uncategorized
CMC Professor Gary Gilbert at Inside Higher Ed: I am suggesting the need to inculcate an obligation to engage, to find ways that members of an academic community can create room for discussion, built on questions rather than conclusions. Anything that promotes...
by jpitney | Aug 10, 2024 | Constitution, Deliberation, Democracy
Nathan Gardels at Noema: It is a mark of just how deep the crisis of governance across Western democracies has become that conflict irresolvable through political competition is giving way to the reconsideration of founding constitutions and the institutions they...
by jpitney | Jun 18, 2024 | Congress, Debate, Deliberation, House of Representatives
At The Washington Examiner, Ben Jacobs reports on covering the House floor for a week: It’s possible I picked a slow week. Perhaps if I sat through another week, I would witness important and substantive things happening. I doubt it, though. Instead, it often felt...
by jpitney | Jun 15, 2024 | Deliberation, Social Media
At Noema, Nathan Gardels speaks with Jonathan Haidt: The displacement of a public square by the viral spectacle of social media hits at the heart of the sober deliberative quality that protects democracy from the pure wash of public passions: There’s no more public...
