We are losing the basis of our civic discourse
via pbs.org
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On the first day of every semester, I open each of my classes with a line that has never lost its punch: “Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts.” That’s Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a senator, academic, public servant and one of America’s last great public intellectuals. In that now-famous line, he wasn’t […]