Incivility is distasteful, sometimes disgusting, and occasionally downright offensive, but does it do real harm? —More than you might think: both to all of us as individual citizens and…
In my last post I gave a capsule description of EnCiv’s understanding of “civil discussion.” I now want to add an important detail: civil discussion’s key dimensions—being respectful, constructive, and…
“Train yourself to let go of what you fear to lose” – Yoda, Star Wars III What is Civil Discourse? Photo by brizzle born and bred Kenneth J. Gergen describes…
You have an important project meeting with Jerry Jones on your calendar for 10 am in room 435. You are sitting at the table but Jerry Jones is nowhere to…
Photo by Tech.Co (formerly Tech Cocktail) Americans didn’t invent the idea of the “wisdom of the people”. More than two thousand years ago Aristotle drew attention to it by favorably…
Political opinions have become more extreme in the last two decades. There is a sharp point of deepening division in 2004. While for most of the 1990s the Republicans and…