This commitment to fostering public discourse and spurring action, informed by science, is a hallmark of MIT's recently unveiled climate plan.
Experimenting with new ways to convey climate findings, and new ways to foster constructive public discourse on issues with this level of complexity and scope, is important.
As Ornella Moscucci has shown, early twentieth-century opponents of lay education worried that it would foster "cancerphobia," pollute public discourse, and (by facilitating lay knowledge) undermine professional authority.
She is interested in how voluntary associations use new and traditional media to engage citizens, advance public discourse, foster government transparency and shape policymaking.
Insofar as freedom of expression is valued because it fosters democratic self-government, public discourse cannot serve as an effective instrument of self-determination without a modicum of civility.
A 1922 graduate of Columbia Business School, the late George S. Eccles established this prize and speaker forum at his alma mater more than 25 years ago to foster greater interest in and public discourse about economic theory, practice and issues.
A 1922 graduate of Columbia Business School, the late George S. Eccles established this prize and speaker forum at his alma mater in 1986 to foster greater interest in and public discourse about economic theory, practice and issues.
"Journals of opinion are not by themselves going to save the world," Navasky admits, but, in nearly three decades of running The Nation and in four hundred-odd pages here, he remains a tireless evangelist for the idea that the world as we know it — liberal, democratic, and Enlightened — won't be saved without them and the public discourse they foster.
It is thereby part of the public discourse, in which design teams could foster alliances of stakeholders to strategically facilitate the production of places.
