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Americans have a long history of being hurried into war on false pretexts. The “yellow press” encouraged a war fever in 1898 by blaming the sinking of the USS Maine on the Spanish, even though the ...

Universities were once celebrated as places where ideas could be challenged, debated, and refined. Classrooms were meant to be arenas for civil discourse—spaces where disagreement was not only ...

This article adopts a constructivist grounded theory approach based on the principle of intersubjective relations and the co-construction of interpretations. Reflecting on the author's experiences as ...

During the spring of 2024, the Civil Discourse Advisory Group developed a list of 10 skills for engaging in civil discourse on campus and in the classroom. Know the type of conversation in which you ...

Forty-four percent of students feel comfortable expressing their opinions on campus without fear of negative consequences. At the same time, students overwhelmingly support efforts to increase civil ...

President Donald Trump's address to Congress on March 4 was one of many examples of how political leaders of both parties no longer model civil discourse. The acrimony on both sides made clear just ...

Amid concerns about academic freedom and rising political polarization on college campuses across the country, leaders at Duke and other universities have adopted new rhetoric to prioritize ...

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt. —M. Switzer (see also Proverbs 17:28) Jürgen Habermas, the aged scion of the Frankfurt School and critical theory, ...