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| 3524c4e | Our civic life is heavily marked--indeed, pocked--by debates in which each side is so certain of its position that any movement is effectively impossible. For that matter, debate--in its original sense of "to consider something, to deliberate"--is impossible. We wind up with so much sound and fury and nothing gained." | listening | Leah Hager Cohen |