Civil Discourse

“Will anti-gay Christians be politically and socially ostracized? I sure hope so.”

by Dominic Bouck, O.P.

How does someone go from giving a TED talk on civil debating to saying, “Will anti-gay Christians be politically and socially ostracized? I sure hope so.”? A lesson in (un)civil discourse. 
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Conservative Outrage Won't Work

by Dominic Bouck, O.P.

Peter Hellman, in a review of by Bryan Burrough's Days of Rage, outlines how the frustrations of the 60s gave way to the violent extremism of the 70s. The violence of radical leftist protesters discredited their movement, contributing to the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980. Conservatives won . . . . Continue Reading »