This sounds like it will be redolent of Adam Gopnik’s defense of liberalism in A Thousand Small Sanities.

“Manners are practical rules for living together. …Good manners involve an affirmation that we, all of us, are part of the same community and deserve respect. Poor manners can indicate the dehumanization of individuals and groups. The boor is often the bigot.”

“America's founders actually thought and wrote a lot about manners….The founders worried that a society without an aristocracy would lack obvious standards of propriety. But it is good manners that allow citizens to argue without coming to blows, and even to find productive compromise”

Michael Gerson had a great piece on this. www.dispatch.com/story/opinio...

“How about a year from Shavuot?”