On the lost art of argument - MisEntropy

E.J. Dionne :

“It’s an approach to argument we’ve lost. What you have so often now on so-called argument shows is simply parallel assertions, competing sound-bites. That’s different from argument where, as Christopher Lasch put it, you have to enter imaginatively into the ideas of your opponents if only to refute them – but in the process you put your own views at risk.”