Whom do you read even though you disagree with them?

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Vox, to writers and thinkers, 9 Questions, 2017

Vox used this as one of nine fixed questions in its 2017 series on intellectual habits.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Ariel Rubinstein said elsewhere, not written here
Firstly, Bob Aumann is a very special man. I disagree with him about his political views – he is a right-wing person. I disagree with him about his current position on “what game theory is about”. From time to time he expresses views – about politics for example – backed with the authority of the great game theoretician. I don’t like those statements. In spite of this fact, I admire him for his academic work and personality.

Sophie Roell, Five Books interview, published transcript, 6 December 2016 source ↗

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Neil deGrasse Tyson Astrophysicist; director of the Hayden Planetarium
The National Review, on occasion. An attempt to understand the brain wiring of as many points of view as I can.
Recorded Sean Illing, Vox, “9 questions” series, 25 March 2017 source ↗
Alain de Botton Writer and philosopher; founder of The School of Life
It’s very gratifying to grow utterly incensed by the Mail Online and come away from it full of fury and absolute outrage at its prejudice and xenophobia — and support for Brexit.
Recorded Sean Illing, Vox, “9 questions” series, 29 April 2017 source ↗
Bill Nye Science communicator and television presenter
I disagree with virtually everything I’ve ever seen on Fox News, but I watch it anyway.
Recorded Sean Illing, Vox, “9 questions” series, 17 June 2017 source ↗
Massimo Pigliucci K.D. Irani Professor of Philosophy at the City College of New York
Even though I’m not a utilitarian, and so I tend to disagree with Singer in terms of the general framework, this book literally changed my life. I read it many years ago, in the 1990s, when I was in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Recorded Nigel Warburton, Five Books interview, published transcript, 2 October 2022 source ↗

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