Love Your Enemies
by Arthur C. Brooks
Brooks's argument against the culture of contempt: how disagreement can be done with warmth, why contempt harms the contemptuous, and practices for persuading without despising. Earnest and useful.
Read it if…
you are exhausted by political anger and want a way to disagree well.
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Skip it if…
you want a partisan case.
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Three things you will actually use
- Contempt is the problem, not disagreement.
- Warmth persuades; scorn hardens.
- Lead with what you share.
Do this first
Have one political conversation this week with the goal of understanding, not winning.
Our verdict
Against contempt.
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