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 ...

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 ...

There’s a story Kenan Institute instructor John Rose relays to his class on civil discourse at the start of every semester. It’s from a speech by the Democratic strategist/CNN pundit Van Jones. “Jones ...

Civil discourse is preferable to the alternatives of coerced silence and violence. Coerced silence means that one side has ...

Add our voices to the chorus of elected office holders—or in our case, former elected officials—who have denounced the tragic murder of Charlie Kirk and with it, all forms of political violence. We're ...

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

Jed Atkins is a professor of classical studies at Duke, and director of Duke's Civil Discourse Project. He'll now be the director and dean of the school of Civic Life and Leadership. The leader of UNC ...

Wednesday on the RealClearPolitics podcast, Tom Bevan, Carl Cannon, and Andrew Walworth discussed which side "won" the 2025 government shutdown, Democrats' strategy of immediately pivoting back to ...

The past election has only further invigorated a national discussion on the ways in which higher education shapes civil and political discourse writ large. At a superficial level, reporters and ...