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.
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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.
About the series
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.
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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.
The School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership had a panel discussion, "Religion in the Civic Sphere,” moderated by Arizona State University’s John Carlson from the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict.
The discussion was co-sponsored by the University of Mary and included the following guests: Ross Douthat, Kathryn Jean Lopez and Amy Sullivan.
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