In order to maintain civility in the United States and it’s politics, “it starts with every American: in electing politicians that will not compromise on core values, such as respecting the personhood of all, and in choosing to respect the dignity of our fellow citizens in our everyday,” says Alexandra Hudson in the Daily Signal Podcast: Recovering the Lost Art of Civility.

On Monday, November 11, author Alexandra Hudson will be coming to St. Lawrence University to speak. Her talk is titled, “Civility’s Importance to American Democracy,” and will be held at 7:30 p.m. in the Sykes Formal Lounge. 

Hudson is currently working on a book exploring the idea of civility and political renewal. 

“I think it is important for people to talk through difference and not at difference,” says SLU student Emery Gray ‘21. “This talk, I think, will help to encourage dialogue on campus, especially with people who have a difference in opinion.”  

A native of California, Alexandra Hudson was originally raised in Vancouver, Canada. She studied both political philosophy and history at Trinity Western University in Langley, British Columbia, Canada. Hudson went on to earn her Master’s degree in social policy at the London School of Economics, as a Rotary Global Grant Scholar. 

Alexandra Hudson has held government positions at the local, state, and federal levels. Most recently she served as a policy advisor to the US Department of Education. 

There she helped to administer an annual budget of 16 billion dollars. She has also held jobs at the American Enterprise Institute, the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty, and the Federalist Society. 

Hudson has had her work published in TIME Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Politico Magazine, Washington Examiner, the American Conservative, Commentary Magazine, and Quillette. She regularly appears on Fox News, as well as other national news outlets. 

“We live in a divided moment where issues of the first order are at stake. These issues  need to be discussed, but we also live in an era where there are high costs to having the ‘wrong’ opinion. 

We are limited in where, how, and whether we can discuss them. Furthermore, many people, especially those in high school and college, are still forming their beliefs on certain issues, and it is difficult to be secure in your viewpoint on a particular topic if you haven’t heard all the counter arguments to your position,” writes Alexandra Hudson in an essay “Better Angels Debates,” posted on her website.