On the Civility of Discourse
There's a lot of talk going around about being more civil. In the body politic, things have always been passionate and often filled with rancor but the inability to separate the fight from the person fighting is at an all time high. When I was a younger man, the idea that one could throw down a harsh argument - whether it was a good argument was often beside the point - in a semi- drunken state, perhaps even go…