Saint Vincent College forum to explore 'politics of rage'

Tired of incivility in national politics? Dreading the 2020 presidential election?

Saint Vincent College’s Center for Political and Economic Thought may have the antidote.

The college’s 2019 Civitas Forum will explore the theme “Raging Against The Machine: Politics In An Angry Age.”

The schedule for the Oct. 16 event is as follows:

• 8:30 a.m. — “Moderation: A Virtue Only for Courageous and Noble Minds” by Aurelian Crăiuțu, Indiana University-Bloomington
• 9:30 a.m. — “Voting in a Polarized Era: How Negative Partisanship Is Shaping the 2020 Presidential Campaign” by Alan Abramowitz, Emory University
• 10:30 a.m. — “Why ‘We Can’t All Just Get Along’” by Peter Skerry, Boston College
• 11:30 a.m. — “The Heated Rhetoric of our Two Constitutions: Multiculturalism vs. America” by Ryan Williams, The Claremont Institute

The 2019-2020 lecture series kicks off with a Constitution Day presentation by Nathan Coleman, associate professor of history at the University of the Cumberlands in Williamsburg, Ky.

Coleman will speak on “The Constitution’s Other Missing ‘S’ Word: Sovereignty and the American Founding,” starting at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 17, in the Fred Rogers Center on campus.

Coleman is the author of “The American Revolution, State Sovereignty, and the American Constitutional Settlement, 1765-1800” (Lexington Books, 2016; paperback, 2017) and co-editor of “Debating Federalism: From the Founding to Today” (Lexington Books, 2019).

For more information or to reserve seats at an event, write to marybeth.mcconahey@stvincent.edu.