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
The previously untold story of the violence in Congress that helped spark the Civil War.
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.
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.
No matter what our political views, few people believe our country is as united as it should be. Whether in the media, politics or even in our personal relationships, we all recognize that the country is increasingly defined by a culture of contempt — in which people treat others with whom they disagree as defective or worthless. Within this distressing reality, however, there lies an opportunity for our nation.
In an age of tribalism, nationalism, populism and identity politics, are we ungratefully throwing away what made the West the free and prosperous place it is today? National Review Senior Editor and AEI Fellow Jonah Goldberg diagnosed our civilization's ills and tries to offer some solutions.
Abraham Lincoln looked to the founding fathers — George Washington, Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson — all his life for inspiration and for guidance in self-expression and politics. But two other fathers also preoccupied him: his biological father, Thomas Lincoln, and — especially as the Civil War ground on — God the father.