Silfen Forum, April 13, 2010

The David and Lyn Silfen University Forum hosted by Penn President Amy Gutmann asked whether political and public discourse in America is truly in trouble and, if so, what the causes, consequences, and antidotes might be. Eminent Penn faculty members Kathleen Hall Jamieson, John DiIulio, and John Jackson, Jr. joined the distinguished chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities and former Congressman Jim Leach, and NBC News Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent Andrea Mitchell in a robust exchange about the apparent deficit in mutual respect and surplus in political polarization of American public debate and political culture in our times.

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