Category: disagreement

On Disagreeing With the Disagreeable

Commentary The good people over at RealClearPolitics ran an interesting article the other day headed, “Let’s Make October ‘Think Outside Your Tribe’ Month.” In it, Carl M. Cannon and David DesRosiers cite the example of a group called “Braver Angels,” which “encourages Americans of divergent political outlooks to share a meal together,” by way of…


How to Turn a Toxic Conflict Into a Good One

We’ve all been there: Locked in a heated argument, blood pressure rising, fixated on our next point rather than actually listening to what the other person has to say. Even after it ends, it doesn’t really end—we keep ruminating on it for hours, days, weeks. This is what journalist Amanda Ripley refers to as “high…