Reference no: EM132101979

1. In his article, "Public Argument and Civil Society," Thomas Kane argues that the Cold War had a "debilitating impact on American civil society, damaging the argumentative practices necessary for meaningful deliberative politics to have cogent meaning." How does Kane justify his position and in what, if any, ways are such constraints on the public sphere and civil society parallel to efforts to constrain the public sphere in the contemporary political environment? construct a speech on a comparison model using Kane's assessment of the historical constraints on public argumentation during the Cold War as they relate to present circumstances in an effort to advance your own argument as to whether or not you recognize such trends as recurring in contemporary civil society.