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Civility, Empathy, and Tears

ByAdam Zolkover January 12, 2016August 1, 2023

It’s an easy thing to get caught up in the idea that civility is basically cerebral. But as the past week has shown, its emotional reality is vitally important, too. About a week ago, on January 5th, in a speech in which he announced some executive orders regarding gun control, President Obama shed very public…

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Civility, Trust, and Gun Violence
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Civility, Trust, and Gun Violence

ByAdam Zolkover October 9, 2015August 1, 2023

It’s difficult to talk about the issue of civility in relation to our national debate about gun violence. Acts of violence like the one we saw today on the campus of Northern Arizona University, or the one we saw last week at Oregon’s Umpqua Community College, are of course inherently, profoundly the opposite of civil….

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