April 20, 2018      1:03 PM

Smith: Can We Be Saved Again by High School Civics?

QR’s Liberal Columnist Glenn W. Smith writes that if our faith in democracy is shaken, maybe we should return together to the lessons of high school civics

Remember Texas high school civics classes? I do. They weren’t easy, at least mine at Bellaire High School in Houston weren’t easy.

Despite their thoroughness and demands on critical thinking, my civics classes offered welcome, patriotic signs of hope in a troubled time of political division and racist-driven strife, an unpopular war, and, in the very year of my senior class, 1972, troubling portents of a coming constitutional crisis.

I was reminded of those classes not too long ago when I was lucky enough to sit at dinner with former national Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele. I’d talked to conservative radio host Charlie Sykes, a critic of President Trump, at the same affair. Anti-Trump Republican Rick Wilson was there, too.

The complete column by Glenn W. Smith is in the R&D Department.

By Glenn W. Smith

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