Julian Zelizer: Are we both sounding so naive and hopeful here? I mean, if I think if I think of an example, answer to my own question, I'd perhaps suggest the COVID pandemic. But that's not necessarily the view widely held in both of them. And there are examples of the most, the most one of the worst examples I think was climate change where for a long time, it just seemed that climate change was an issue of the left for some reason. The right did not see it as an issue. It became associated with kind of like sandal wearing left-wing kind of hippies and the right kind of ignored it. Similarly, other other
Philosopher Julian Baggini shares the insights of his new book How to Think Like a Philosopher: Essential Principles for Clearer Thinking. In conversation with government minister Jesse Norman, who was himself once an academic philosopher, Baggini set out the techniques, methods and principles that guide philosophy, and show how they can be applied to our own lives – and our politics. Using precepts such as: pay attention, question everything, follow the facts, and think for yourself but not by yourself, Baggini shows how clearer thinking can help us meet the challenges of our troubled times.
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