"Newt," Mr. Frank says today, "is the single most influential factor in replacing the politics in which you accepted the bona fides of your opponents and disagreed with them civilly with the politics of insisting that your opponents are bad people".
A burgeoning alliance -- recalling the "Teamsters and Turtles" alliance that rocked the World Trade Organization in the streets of Seattle 10 years ago this month -- has united the fed-up-and-not-gonna-take-it-anymore residents of coalfield communities with the civilly disobedient youth of the climate justice movement.
But what viewers of the "Scared Straight" documentaries have never seen are the follow-up sessions at which the inmates talk civilly with the youngsters, one on one, with counselors by their side.
On one crowded train, a man supporting Egypt's military rulers disagreed, quite civilly, with a man supporting its Islamist parties.
"They are like a divorced couple who cannot talk civilly with one another, or refuse to do so for fear of recognizing one another's legitimacy or point of view," said Ted Henken, a Latin American studies professor at Baruch College.
Even the lofty Alfred and Blanche Knopf had to deal civilly with Robbins (and go to court to establish that his books were not obscene) after their son acquired the rights to a Robbins book while his parents were on vacation.
There is an increasing level of outright hostility; on the Republican side especially, the arguments that have been deployed to rally opposition to the enemy's agenda provide intellectual support for violent resistance.Setting aside the policy issues we're facing over the next four years, I think the most immediate need is for Americans to find a way to live civilly with each other.
It mostly demonstrates that it's possible to disagree more civilly with people of differing political views.
By contrast, Moroccan Islamic broadcasting calls on Muslims to take personal responsibility to improve their lives, accept doctrinal differences within the faith, and prepare the next generation to interact civilly with one another as well as their non Muslim neighbors.
The point of the hashtag that these commentators miss is that the expression of solidarity is not for the magazine's specific content, but its right to publish that content and deal civilly with whatever acceptable response it may incur.
