"People often have other reasons for arguing: unacknowledged or even unconscious reasons that have little or nothing to do with “prevailing” or...
Hidden Motives in Arguing
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Public Discourse
Discomfort with Religious Right
"My own guess is that what makes the critics of the religious right obscurely uncomfortable about its views is not that it “tries to impose them on...
Intellectual Discomfort and Thinking
"I recently read … a little homily to the effect that, if a person makes us think we're thinking, we love him; but if he makes us think, we hate...