BUFFALO, N.Y. – The faculty of the University at Buffalo’s Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) program has received a nearly $4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) for a ...

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 ...

To the editor: I appreciate your July 4 editorial’s point that when the people stop arguing, that’s when the trouble begins in a democracy. The arguments that we have been having are ages old and will ...

Those famous words by Rodney King during the L.A. riots in May 1992 are still being asked today by millions of Americans who long for a more kind, productive civil discourse. Recently, the heated ...

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 ...

In a world marked by nearly ubiquitous technology use, rapid information flows, and shifting norms of communication, cultivating civil discourse in schools has never been more important. Civil ...

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It’s been a rough few weeks, months, even years in the world of education, particularly when it comes to engaging in productive discourse. No matter what education conversation takes place—from ...

WASHINGTON — Back in 2014, as the U.S. debate over the legalization of marriage between persons of the same sex reached a fever pitch, Ryan Anderson, a Catholic author and exponent of marriage as a ...

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