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Archive Home > 2011 > January > 23 > Be polite, but not ambivalent

Be polite, but not ambivalent


January 23, 2011

“We are not enemies, but friends.”

— Abraham Lincoln

WASHINGTON —

With Americans shocked into reflection on the desperate, divisive tone of their politics, it is worth asking: Why, other than upbringing, should we be civil in the first place?

In the Western tradition, one answer has been....

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