by jpitney | Apr 8, 2022 | Deliberation, Higher Education
Jon Shields at NY Times: Like other conservative professors who are advocates of free speech on campus, I once opposed efforts to create a classroom climate in which students are protected from speech they find emotionally upsetting, ranging from “microaggressions” to...
by jpitney | Mar 31, 2022 | Congress, Deliberation, House of Representatives
Don Wolfensberger at The Hill: The House Rules Committee is to be commended on holding a day-long hearing March 17 on proxy floor voting and remote committee proceedings — two emergency pandemic procedures initiated in the last Congress. All told, 16 House members...
by jpitney | Mar 28, 2022 | Civility, Deliberation, Education, Local Government
Jonathan E. Collins and Julian Bessinger have a Brookings article titled ” The case for participatory democracy during educational crisis.” In 2010, an organization called Everyday Democracy (ED) organized the Strong Start for Children (SSFC)...
by jpitney | Mar 27, 2022 | Deliberation, Polarization, Social Media
Nathan Gardels at Noema: The splinternet has predictably evolved into wars among platforms armed with predisposed views of reality that resist external checks on perceptions. As Claire Webb writes in Noema, epistemes or paradigms determine how information is...
by jpitney | Mar 22, 2022 | Deliberation, Russia, Ukraine
At PolitiFact, Angie Drobnic Holan explains what Governor Schwarzenegger did write in his message to the Russian people. Start in a friendly way. Schwarzenegger doesn’t address the hardest thing first. On the contrary, he begins the video by thanking “my dear...
by jpitney | Mar 14, 2022 | California Politics, Deliberation, Democracy, Mexico
Nathan Gardels at Noema: Until 2000, the PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party) won every presidential election for some 70 years. This led the Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa to mock Mexico as “the perfect dictatorship,” which perpetuated one-party rule through...
