The “near collapse of civic friendship is a catastrophic threat to public life,” Robert P. George writes. “Restoring it depends on our capacity to practice civil discourse, which in turn requires us to acknowledge our fallibility.”

How each outlet headlined it

• The Atlantic left

  The “near collapse of civic friendship is a catastrophic threat to public life,” Robert P. George writes. “Restoring it depends on our capacity to practice civil discourse, which in turn requires us to acknowledge our fallibility.”
• The Hill center

  We live in highly polarized, siloed and dangerous times. Discussion, debate and civility are all but gone. If we do not run to common sense and the pragmatic as a country and civilization, all will be lost.