debate

 

About half way through the first presidential debate — seven Republicans in New Hampshire — I began scratching my head. Why are any of them running for president?

Almost every question posed to them drew an answer that involved eliminating the federal government.

 
 
“Enlightened citizen” is redundant; a citizen understands the aesthetics of issues, according to Mike Hartoonian, University of Minnesota. Find out what he, Terrence Guay, Penn State University, and Jim Davis, Social Science Education Consortium, have to say about debate, democracy, and citizenship.