by jpitney | Jun 30, 2021 | Civil Rights, Uncategorized
By Hannah R. Pitney I have always believed that America needs more civility. During the Trump Administration especially, I thought there was a general lack of decency. I remember a moment during the first 2020 presidential debate when I thought to myself, “How is it...
by jpitney | Jun 27, 2021 | Uncategorized
Nils Gilman at Noema: Popular concern with historical memory is a characteristic mark of a polity undergoing a transition from one era to another. As the Chinese-born Anglo-Irish political scientist Benedict Anderson observed in his classic “Imagined...
by jpitney | May 30, 2021 | Trade, Uncategorized
Yuka Hayashi and Josh Zumbrun at The Wall Street Journal: Economists and policy makers are debating whether stimulus spending and easy monetary policy are fueling inflation. Many businesses say there is another culprit that should share the blame: import tariffs.The...
by jpitney | May 3, 2021 | Bipartisanship, Congress, House of Representatives, Senate, Uncategorized
The Lugar Center and the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University today jointly released their new Bipartisan Index rankings for the full 116th Congress (2019 – 2020). The non-partisan tool measures the degree to which Senators and...
by jpitney | Apr 22, 2021 | Civility, Deliberation, Uncategorized
Richard M. Perloff at Cleveland.com: Pollyannaish as it may sound, three lines of social science research show that treating adversaries in positive, respectful ways can overcome resistance, replacing it with, if not agreement, mutual understanding. First, research...
