Tim Smith has 20+ years of experience in the financial services industry, both as a writer and as a trader. Amanda Jackson has expertise in personal finance, investing, and social services. She is a ...

Universities were once celebrated as places where ideas could be challenged, debated, and refined. Classrooms were meant to be arenas for civil discourse—spaces where disagreement was not only ...

Charlie Kirk was the ideal role model for American political discourse. Throughout his unfortunately short life, Charlie committed himself unreservedly to reasoned debate, rational discourse, and the ...

On the first day of every semester, I open each of my classes with a line that has never lost its punch: “Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts.” That’s Daniel Patrick ...

Amid concerns about academic freedom and rising political polarization on college campuses across the country, leaders at Duke and other universities have adopted new rhetoric to prioritize ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jamie Merisotis writes about education, human work, and philanthropy. Civil discourse, the ability to hash out differences and ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Alum Grace Beal/Daily. Buy this photo. The University Insider is The Daily’s first faculty and ...

The classic example of chutzpah is that of the child who murders his parents and then pleads for mercy as an orphan. With the 2024 presidential election, we have a new way to illustrate the point: the ...

We study the supply of fiscal ideas leveraging thousands of electoral platforms from 65 countries in the Manifesto Project to link how political parties discuss fiscal policy with fiscal outcomes. We ...

Professor Randy Boyagoda has been appointed the University of Toronto’s first provostial adviser on civil discourse. A faculty member in the department of English in the Faculty of Arts & Science and ...

All you have to do is spend a few minutes on social media and it becomes very obvious we have a hard time talking with each other when we disagree, especially during these volatile times. In our ...