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Lesson 1: Why Have a Civil Dialogue?- Welcome to Constitution 101!
- Why Have Civil Dialogue? | Constitution 101
- Governor Jeb Bush on the Importance of Civil Dialogue
- Justice Stephen Breyer on Civil Dialogue at the Supreme Court
- Background: Constitutional Conversations: Roles and Norms
- Yuval Levin on the Importance of Avoiding Cynicism
- Primary source: Alexander Hamilton, *Federalist,* No. 1
- Understand: Why have a civic dialogue?
- Apply: Why have a civil dialogue?
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Yuval Levin on the Importance of Avoiding Cynicism
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- What does Cynicism mean?(1 vote)
- Cynicism is when someone tends to doubt people's intentions and believes that everyone acts out of selfishness.(2 votes)
- Is the author speaking to both sides of the political divide? It seems that those on the right are hyperventilating on cynicism. They have no mode of approaching an issue other than through cynicism or grievance politics. With blatant evidence of harm to our democracy and malfeasance on a scale too enormous to be comprehended, the current candidate for the Republican ticket takes a daily bath in cynicism and disdain for sane governance. It only leads to his followers to do the same.(1 vote)