Our politics are incredibly toxic, and at times conditions only seem to be worsening. But look around and it’s possible to see the emergence of a competing set of conditions — what I’ll call the New Civility. I say it’s “new” because the old civility is about people holding hands and singing Kum-by-yah. We’re in need of something more potent and realistic.
GUEST COMMENTARY: The struggling emergence of a new civility
Sunday, July 3, 2011 | 6:10 p.m. CDT
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