The Lost Art of Persuasion
Identity/Crisis
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The Importance of Persuasion
The Hartman Institute's summer program focuses on the language of liberalism. The term sometimes connotes a team within a team sport, whether it's conservatives against their political opponents or progressives against each other. A big part of what a liberal ethos about is actually a commitment to talking in a certain way, engaging with the other in acertain way. Persuasion is increasingly a lost art and we are behaving in ways that are resisting the culture of persuasion,. We want opinionated, strong-willed people who rush into public debate.
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