Arthur C. Brooks
Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America from a Culture of Contempt 

Lecture sponsored by the Cary M. Maguire Center for Ethics and Public Responsibility in partnership with CIQ@SMU. General public/faculty/staff/students welcome. Wednesday, Oct. 2, 6-7:30 p.m. (Crum Auditorium - Collins Executive Education Center)

Arthur C. Brooks is Professor of the Practice of Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School and an Arthur C. Patterson Faculty Fellow at the Harvard Business School. Before joining the Harvard faculty, he served for 10 years as president of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a public policy think tank in Washington, DC. His latest book Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America from the Culture of Contempt argues that America has developed a “culture of contempt” in which we increasingly view people who disagree with us not as merely incorrect or misguided, but as worthless. This, Brooks argues, is warping political discourse, tearing us apart as people, and even wrecking our health. According to Brooks, to overcome polarization, we shouldn't disagree less, rather we should disagree better.