Professor of Philanthropic Studies at the University of Kent
Recorded · Five Books · 2021
We should engage with these texts. I disagree with them, and I argue back against them, but I don’t think that means they shouldn’t be read and thought about.
9 Questions
Vox, put to writers and thinkers
5 questions, 93 answers to them so far. Every one of them is asked here as itself, with the format it came from on the page. Nobody answers as anybody else.
Whose work do you read even when you disagree with them?
Benjamin F. Wissler Professor of Physics at Middlebury College
Recorded · Five Books · 2021
I chose this book because it’s written by a physicist, very elderly now, who has spent all his life working in controlled fusion. The title is a take on Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth .
Science communicator and television presenter
Recorded · Vox · 2017
I disagree with virtually everything I’ve ever seen on Fox News, but I watch it anyway.
Every question in this set
- What do you need to believe in order to get through an ordinary day? 9
- What makes you want to keep learning? 9
- Which thinking habit do you wish you could break? 21
- When did you last change your mind about something important? 28
- Whose work do you read even when you disagree with them? 26
The number is how many answers are on the record here. A dash means nobody has answered it yet, which is an opening rather than a gap.