Civility or Skin in the Game?

Can We Be Passionate About Being Cool?

Liberals love to praise the virtues of civility and civil discourse. Illiberals, or post-liberals, by contrast, see civility as problematic in that it makes a norm of being cool. But what if things deserve to heat up due to the seriousness of the situation? Carl Schmitt—and various agitators on the right—would say meaning is found where there is conflic…