Comparing incivility to disease helps bring home some of the ways its negative effects on individuals and society interact. Incivility presents itself “clinically” as disrespect and discrimination, on one hand,…
Incivility doesn’t just harm us as individual citizens; it harms us as a society, too—in at least three ways. First, by making it difficult—if not impossible—to engage in reasoned exchanges,…
Our website’s home page proclaims that EnCiv is all about “civil discussion for a better democracy.” Just what do we mean by that? How, specifically, does civil discussion improve democracy?…