I happen to love Fordham University. My daughter got a great education there. As president of the College Democrats, she worked well with College Republicans. I met a whole lot of them when they politely turned out the night she helped bring Howard Dean to campus; the next year, she got to moderate a question and answer session – to insure fairness – when the College Republicans hosted Karl Rove. It felt to me like a lost era of civility and reason, watching young people from the two parties get along up in the Bronx.But now the Fordham College Republicans have invited Ann Coulter, who outdoes Karl Rove (barely, these days) in the department of divisiveness and meanness. I had a moment of regretting the mega-dollars I spent on Fordham – even though I know the clubs are free to invite whomever they like, within reason (although this tests reason.) Then I saw Fordham President Father Joseph McShane’s terrific reply, which I’m printing in full.Given the dramatic rightward shift of the Republican Party, I happen to believe that the path back to civility involves civil people not merely smiling and being civil, but forcefully calling extremist Republicans out on their cruelty and extremism. Father McShane shows the way. He blasts Coulter’s message as “hateful and needlessly provocative—more heat than light—and her message is aimed squarely at the darker side of our nature.”Continue Reading… … Read More
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