In 2014, he founded the Politics and Markets Project “to foster education, research, and discussion about the appropriate relationship between business and government in the 21st century.” But the initiative, which receives support from the Paul E. Primo has made freer discussion of controversial political topics something of a personal mission. In turn, they tend to attract audiences of people who share many of the same assumptions about the issues under examination. The problem, according to Primo, is that often such forums present a limited spectrum of viewpoints. There’s no shortage of forums in American higher education dedicated to discussions about contentious issues. But along with civil society, he adds, comes “the need to separate out emotions and look analytically” at the affairs that divide us. The emotions elicited by politics are “very genuine,” says Primo, the Ani and Mark Gabrellian Professor and associate professor of political science and business administration. But shouldn’t a university be precisely the place to parse through the issues that have generated such stark political divisions? When Donald Trump won the presidential election last November, David Primo struggled over whether, and how, to discuss the election with his political science students.
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