Meenakshi Chakraverti is director of San-Diego-based Public Conversations West (PCWest), a branch of the Public Conversations Project (PCP). She has studied conflict and facilitated conversations across the United States and the world, from Flint, Michigan to Burundi. Before participating in a panel on civility in American life, Chakraverti took questions in Zócalo’s green room.
Long before the Interstate 8 connected Arizona and San Diego, there was the Old Plank Road. The name is what it sounds like. Wooden planks provided cars with a way …
Last summer I went on a bit of fact-finding mission to little National City, just across the municipal border from San Diego’s south side. Every summer and school break when …
Yes, Americans are polarized. Yes, we’re also uncivil about it. We shout at our fellow citizens across barricades, leave enraged posts on websites, and tune in to watch people shouting …
In 21st-century American politics, the combatants don’t agree on much. But they do agree that political discourse isn’t as civil it should be. This is a very old complaint, since …
Henry Brady is dean of the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. He has worked in Washington, D.C. at the Office of Management and Budget, …
Jennifer Linde is a senior lecturer in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University and the artistic director of The Empty Space, a performance venue featuring …
