Community, Communication, and Civility

by | Aug 22, 2020 | Civility

Prof. Ryan Fowler at PennLive: Loud partisan talking points and hurling ideological platitudes at one another is in direct conflict with the (com-/cum-) prefix of the word “communication.” In fact, the Latin word that communication derives from–communicare–actually...

COVID and Community

by | Jul 9, 2020 | civic virtue, Coronavirus, Tocqueville

Nicholas Romanow, who just became a citizen, writes at The Bulwark: The political philosophers, historians, and sociologists who argue that a kind of rugged individualism is at the heart of the American character aren’t entirely wrong, but the familiar caricature of...