Following on with our discussion on how a lack of believability and trustworthiness (ethos) in our political debates on all sides of the political divide is causing the present disconnection among people, I would like to turn once again to the Brexit debate. Watching this campaign daily on British television it is easy to get […]
Political Debate: How Can We Avoid the Usual “Slugfest?”
For many of us in Western European and in the United States, politics seems to have lost its appeal and hit a new low in terms of trust. Perhaps this isn’t entirely surprising after watching the leaders TV debates on both sides of the Atlantic and the British debate on Brexit. One commentator last week […]
What About These Public debates?
Recently an estimated 27,000 young people crowded into Washington Square in New York cheering on their favorite candidate, Bernie Sanders, for the democratic nomination. Bernie Sanders is opposed by the establishment candidate, Hilary Clinton, and both candidates squared off in their debate, across the river, in Brooklyn some days later. It was, as one columnist […]
