Can We All Just Get Along?

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Can We All Just Get Along?

瓜神app | By Dana Terry,

Frank Stasio

Published November 23, 2018 at 11:55 AM EST

copy of the cover of Think Again - How to Reason and Argue

Note: This segment is a rebroadcast from September 5, 2018.

There was a time when we could agree to disagree and still be civil at work, play, and the dinner table.

Today鈥檚 political climate has left a marked divide in the nation which has only been deepened by social media. Walter Sinnott-Armstrong is Chauncey Stillman Professor of Practical Ethics in the Duke University philosophy department. His work on political polarization reveals that this is not the first time this country has suffered from broken-down discourse. Sinnott-Armstrong joins host Frank Stasio to share the history of public discourse and his practical tools for having more civilized conversation. In his new book 鈥淭hink Again: How to Reason and Argue鈥� (Oxford University Press/2018), Sinnott-Armstrong dissects the art of arguing, including when we should argue and when we should not. Sinnott-Armstrong is co-instructor of the online Coursera course 鈥淭hink Again鈥� which teaches the art of argument, including the finer details of respect and compromise.

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Dana Terry

Dana is an award-winning producer who began as a personality at Rock 92. Once she started creating content for morning shows, she developed a love for producing. Dana has written and produced for local and syndicated commercial radio for over a decade. 瓜神app is her debut into public radio and she鈥檚 excited to tell deeper, richer stories.

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Frank Stasio

Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's 瓜神app Director.

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