Prof. JoAnn Koob at George Mason University [Antonin Scalia] School of Law told me about this project, which sounds very interesting, so I thought I'd pass it along. Here's the blurb from her: As the ...

The Conversation Across the Aisle project seeks to bring together people with different views for a meal. The goal: civil discourse.

Duke is equipping students to respect differing viewpoints in a variety of ways. This Duke Today series examines the decline in civil discourse and Duke’s efforts to improve campus dialogue. If the ...

Civil discourse is preferable to the alternatives of coerced silence and violence. Coerced silence means that one side has exercised power to end conversation—to say, in effect, there is no point in ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. The first permanent dean and director of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s ...

It’s fitting that our recent conversation about civil discourse in politics and policymaking happened over lunch at Culver’s. After all, it’s one of the few institutions in Wisconsin that nearly ...

Like the rest of America, Duke is starved of common ground. At first glance, Duke appears to be a university deeply committed to civility, bridging divides and fostering meaningful dialogue across ...