The School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership and partnered with the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication and the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law welcomed Judge Michael Mukasey and Nadine Strossen to ASU as part of the annual lecture series, "Polarization and Civil Disagreement: Confronting America's Civic Crisis."
In this keynote address, Yuval Levin discusses how to heal a fractured country
Keynote Speaker:
- Yuval Levin, National Affairs
In this panel, panelists discuss populism and tribalism in American Life
Moderator:
- James Stoner, Louisiana State University
Panelists:
- Michael Zuckert, Notre Dame University, Arizona State University
- Musa Al-Gharbi, Columbia University
- Shikha Dalmia, Reason Foundation, The Week
- Manu Meel, Bridge USA, University of California, Berkeley
In this panel, the panelists discussed whether political polarization in 2019 is really worse than it has ever been.
Moderator:
- Eric Felten, The Washington Examiner
Panelists:
- Jay Cost, American Enterprise Institute
- Joanne Freeman, Yale University
- Norman Ornstein, American Enterprise Institute
In this panel, the panelists discuss the roots of partisanship and the possibility of civility
Moderator:
- Daniel Cullen, Rhodes College, Jack Miller Center
Panelists:
- Teresa Bejan, Oxford University
- Tom Kelly, Princeton University
- Harvey Mansfield, Harvard University
In this keynote, Jonathan Rauch of the Brookings Institution talks about polarization and how it got tougher as a problem.
The previously untold story of the violence in Congress that helped spark the Civil War.
About the Speakers
Gary Dorrien teaches social ethics, theology and philosophy of religion as the Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary and professor of religion at Columbia University. He was previously the Parfet Distinguished Professor at Kalamazoo College, where he taught for 18 years and also served as dean of Stetson Chapel and director of the Liberal Arts Colloquium.
About the speaker:
Christine Jones is the former executive vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary for Go Daddy, and the current chief operating officer of the Prostate Cancer Foundation, the world’s leading philanthropic organization dedicated to the research and eradication of prostate cancer. Jones is also the founder and chief executive officer of Bigfork Technologies, a legal tech company specializing in fully customizable cloud-based solutions for legal departments.
The School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership welcomed pollsters Kristen Soltis Anderson, R, and Margie Omero, D, as they bring their podcasting partnership to ASU to analyze the results of the 2018 midterm elections as they do regularly on their podcast, "The Pollsters." Both Anderson and Omero, from different sides of the political spectrum, analyze the polls driving news in politics, tech, entertainment and pop culture. For this post-election conversation at ASU, they considered the polls and the issues from the midterm election.