Civic discourse is unraveling across the country, and one of the most pronounced local examples is at San Diego County Board of Supervisors meetings. Name-calling, mockery, outbursts and ...

THE MORALITY of war is extremely complicated. So, consequently, are the ethics of commenting on it. But in the war in Israel and Gaza, some things are simple: the horrendous atrocities committed by ...

“ Ross Nelsons' column, "The lesser of two evils, ” raises critical concerns about misinformation in such a public forum. Ross Nelson claims, “President Biden could hardly have picked a more unpopular ...

Earlier this month, as political gadfly Audra Morgan was sharing her views on behavioral health at a meeting of the San Diego County Board of Supervisors, she punctuated her position with vulgarity ...

Contemporary forms of public debate are subject to a growing tension: even as participatory mechanisms multiply, the quality of exchanges seems to be deteriorating under the effects of polarization, ...

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Are you among the silent majority? I once was. With polarization plaguing public discourse, I saw no point in engaging. But then I began to wonder if my silence was part of the problem. Polarization ...

There is some small fraction of Americans — conspiracy bloggers, radio hosts, performance artists somehow elected to public office — who prosper from and presumably revel in this century’s rapid ...

In a world flooded with opinions, the role of the public intellectual has never been more essential—or more compromised. Once revered as critical thinkers who could deepen public understanding, many ...

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