“The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.”— Joseph Joubert

“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”

There are moments in life when you feel something shifting beneath the surface of the world around you. In recent years, watching the way Americans spoke to one another, and sometimes at one another,  I began to feel that shift. The noise was getting louder. Outrage was becoming a habit. And the space where honest conversation once lived seemed to be shrinking.