by jpitney | May 13, 2021 | Democracy
Martin Wolf at The Financial Times: The fact that Trump is lying is not news. What is news is that, even shorn of public office, Trump defines the truth for his party. There is a word for a political organisation in which the prime duty of members is absolute loyalty...
by jpitney | Apr 20, 2021 | Civility, Democracy, Polarization, Public Opinion
Nate Cohn at NYT: This threat to democracy has a name: sectarianism. It’s not a term usually used in discussions about American politics. It’s better known in the context of religious sectarianism — like the hostility between Sunnis and Shia in Iraq. Yet a growing...
by jpitney | Apr 14, 2021 | Democracy
Jan. 6 put American democratic weaknesses on display, and some critics quickly began to claim that America should no longer advocate for democracy abroad. Bush Institute Kelly and David Pfeil Fellow Nicole Bibbins Sedaca sits down with Christopher Walsh, the Bush...
by jpitney | Mar 4, 2021 | Democracy, Freedom of Press, International Relations
Please read this important report. Not only is America not in top ten on freedom/democracy index, we aren’t in top 20 or even in top 50 countries in the world. https://t.co/8t0dJSKySo pic.twitter.com/MdlzE263Ec — Matthew Dowd (@matthewjdowd) March 3, 2021 The...
by jpitney | Feb 1, 2021 | Biden, Civic Education, civic virtue, Civility, Deliberation, Democracy, Polarization
A release from the University of Virginia Center for Politics Responding to President Joe Biden’s inaugural request to end the “uncivil war” in America, the University of Virginia Center for Politics is launching a yearlong national Civility Project in an effort to...
by jpitney | Jan 24, 2021 | civic virtue, Civility, Democracy, Polarization, Religion
David French: On January 15, Hunter Baker, the dean of arts and sciences at Union University—a Baptist college not far from me in Jackson, Tennessee—did something exceedingly rare in our highly polarized time. He published an apology. In an essay in Public Discourse,...
