Civility, Consensus, Constructivism
by Peter J. LeithartLamenting the harshness of public discourse is understandable, but we can’t re-establish civility without common adherence to a common good. Continue Reading »
Lamenting the harshness of public discourse is understandable, but we can’t re-establish civility without common adherence to a common good. Continue Reading »
Social media tend to magnify the expansive self, encouraging participants to stake out a virtual identity within the ethereal territory of the world wide web: “This is who I am, like it or not!” “My political beliefs are part of my identity; to call them into question is to call my very identity into question.” Continue Reading »
According to a bit of street wisdom that has worked its way into the national vocabulary, “You got to walk the walk, not just talk the talk.” But since the opposite of everything is frequently, if not always, true, we might, on the matter of explicitly Christian rhetoric and the American public . . . . Continue Reading »
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