Lyceum Debates
Productive not Destructive.
Policies not Politics.
Civil.
Such are the effects of mob law; and such are the scenes, becoming more and more frequent in this land … What has this to do with the perpetuation of our political institutions? I answer:
Abraham Lincoln’s Lyceum address, 1838
It has much to do with it.
Today, civil society in the United States is under siege by mob violence. Politics is spoiled by hyperpartisan polarization. Media in is being ruined by tribalism and clickbait.
These forces have turned political debates into a cage match. We can do better, and we must.
Participants
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Lyceum Format
Three voices get three minutes to offer three solutions to one problem – that is the Lyceum debate format. They question one another. All with civility.
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Leadership
The American Lyceum was founded by two economists with over half a century of combined work on federal policy, one from the Hoover Institution and one from the Brookings Institution. Meet Tim Kane and Bob Litan
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