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 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 2, 2023 | Civility, Deliberation, Public Service
Julie Carr Smyth at AP: Former U.S. Sen. Rob Portman is joining forces with the University of Cincinnati to create a new academic center that will foster civility, open and inclusive dialogue and bipartisanship in politics, the Republican and the university announced...
by jpitney | Feb 11, 2023 | Civility, Deliberation, Polarization
Robert Alexander at RealClearPolitics: In order to move beyond this “polarization pandemic,” we must start with civility. Our politicians must set a better example for all of us. Tolerance is a key feature of healthy democracies and is most likely to prevail when...
by jpitney | Oct 23, 2022 | Congress, Deliberation
Yuval Levin at CNN: There is no silver bullet for the problems confronting our democracy, but it is crucial to begin by recognizing that the political arena is intended to be a venue for disagreement and contention. Our political system now feels dysfunctional – not...
