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SCOTUS Justice Kennedy Retires | Barbara Perry

Barbara Perry, currently the Gerald L. Baliles Professor and Director of Presidential Studies at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center, where she co-directs the Presidential Oral History Program talks with Les Sinclair about the retirement of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy.
Barbara Perry
Chronicle of Higher Education

What Does Justice Kennedy’s Retirement Mean for Higher Education?

Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center, said that campus conflicts over free speech are likely to end up in front of a future Supreme Court. And in that case, Kennedy’s moderate voice will be sorely missed, she said.
Barbara Perry
Yahoo

The civility trap: There's a right and a wrong way to express dissent

Political historian Nicole Hemmer wrote, “You got heckled at a restaurant? Dean Rusk appeared in San Francisco and was greeted by 400 people chanting ‘Dean Rusk: Wanted for Murder.’ Then they hurled ‘rocks, eggs, and blood-filled balloons’ at the hotel where he was speaking.”
Nicole Hemmer
Washington Post

Happy Hour Roundup

Nicole Hemmer reminds us that, in his day, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was thought to be extremely uncivil for organizing civil disobedience and demanding change.
Nicole Hemmer
Vox

In MLK’s day, conservatives didn’t think he was so “civil”

With Donald Trump in the White House, it seems like an odd time for a debate about civility on the left to break out. But after three administration officials were confronted at restaurants in separate incidents last week, calls for civility have flourished. Those advocating a more polite politics argue that civility should be the left’s m.o. not only because it’s morally desirable, but because it’s politically effective — and “incivility” is not.
Nicole Hemmer