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Civility and Consensus Are Overrated

Osita Nwanevu and Samuel Kimbriel know a better way.

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Damir Marusic
Mar 13, 2021
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Civility and Consensus Are Overrated

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Too many commentators today want a "return to civility" in political discourse. Osita Nwanevu, a staff writer at The New Republic, and Samuel Kimbriel, a political philosopher, think that's misguided—rather than ignoring our fundamental disagreements, we should be arguing about them muc…

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