Comment: I agree that disciplined debate matters, yet debate can only take us so far. We also need dialogic spaces where curiosity replaces defensiveness and people learn to think together rather than apart.Our society is dangerously polarised.
We don’t listen to each other.
Too many of us are separating into ideological tribes.
This has to stop.
The future of our democracy depends on it.
This is what the Munk Debates is all about.
Opening minds to different points of view.
Challenging groupthink.
Debating controversial issues with rigour and honesty.
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