Thursday, 19 Oct 2023
Can We Be Civil? Call-Out Culture in America
Pleas to be "civil" in our political and social dialogue in the news media are often followed by demands to call out discrimination and injustice wherever we see it. This lecture will examine the tensions between the two types of discourse by referring back to a characteristically American form of political rhetoric: prophetic indictment. Cathleen Kaveny serves as the Darald and Juliet Libby Professor at Boston College.