The Discerning Texan
All that is necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing.
-- Edmund Burke
-- Edmund Burke
Saturday, March 10, 2007
Civility and Public Discourse UPDATED
The recent Ann Coulter and Bill Maher gaffes are a product of a culture that incrasingly tolerates the outrageous and swallows any notion of civility. Peggy Noonan offers some well needed advice: Listen to your grandmother.
UPDATE: As Victor Davis Hanson points out, our move towards civility by necessity must be voluntary, not coerced.
UPDATE: As Victor Davis Hanson points out, our move towards civility by necessity must be voluntary, not coerced.
Labels: Culture War, US Politics
