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You cannot polarize and proselytize at the same time. You have to give people room to be wrong without demonizing them.

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“The truth sounds crazy only because people spend much of their days lying to each other. And to themselves.”

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Offensive articles are also just such a small part of what we do, not only in terms of what brings in reads, but in terms of the actual number of articles we publish.

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I don’t believe anyone has a duty not to offend people — and I think people who disagree don’t value critical thinking.

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Facebook-only commenting has one result — scaring people into agreement.

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Death is painful. But so is life.

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“Intelligence” is a funny word to explain this linguistic, social tendency, since insects do it all the time and no one considers them intelligent.

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Education should teach us more than the rules and regulations of becoming a productive worker.

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What I taught — at least, what I tried to teach — is how to see the lay of the land, how a discourse constructs itself, what its terms are, what the assumptions are, what the pivotal terms are.