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Keith Bybee on the Campbell Conversations

Syracuse University

In the aftermath of the 2016 election, many think we are suffering a crisis regarding our ability to converse publicly and remain civil, from the airwaves to the dinner table. This week on the Campbell Conversations host Grant Reeher talks with Syracuse University law and political science professor Keith Bybee, about his new book on public civility, titled How Civility Works. Bybee sets forward an argument about civility, that its weaknesses are also its strengths, and that our sense of a collapse in civility is not something new in American public life.

Grant Reeher is Director of the Campbell Public Affairs Institute and a professor of political science at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. He is also creator, host and program director of “The Campbell Conversations” on WRVO, a weekly regional public affairs program featuring extended in-depth interviews with regional and national writers, politicians, activists, public officials, and business professionals.