President Donald Trump's address to Congress on March 4 was one of many examples of how political leaders of both parties no longer model civil discourse. The acrimony on both sides made clear just ...

The Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Ithaca Initiative in the Joseph R. Biden, Jr. School of Public Policy and Administration welcomed more than 120 students, faculty and staff from across the U.S.

Civil discourse is preferable to the alternatives of coerced silence and violence. Coerced silence means that one side has exercised power to end conversation—to say, in effect, there is no point in ...