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Should I Stop Speaking to My Trump-Supporting Friends?
Even when people see the value of something, the desire to keep their identity as a conservative, a liberal, or anything else can be stronger than their sense of interconnectedness—even if it means that kids go hungry. How can I work with a liberal, even if we have the same goals? It makes no sense, but the differences can take over. That’s what we
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the back-and-forth of civil discussion is necessary for the legitimacy of democratic political decisions.
Marie K. Shanahan • Journalism, Online Comments, and the Future of Public Discourse
“Your Truth” doesn’t exist.
“Truth? What is that?” — it’s the rhetorical question Pontius Pilate posed to Jesus in the Gospel of John.
Pilate’s world-weary cynicism suggested that truth is slippery and subjective, impossible to pin down. His question should resonate with modern audiences — in our current grappling with the nature of reality, facts, a
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