{"id":4983,"date":"2017-12-03T10:53:45","date_gmt":"2017-12-03T10:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/12\/03\/dennis-prager-responds-to-bret-stephens\/"},"modified":"2017-12-03T10:53:45","modified_gmt":"2017-12-03T10:53:45","slug":"dennis-prager-responds-to-bret-stephens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/12\/03\/dennis-prager-responds-to-bret-stephens\/","title":{"rendered":"Dennis Prager Responds to Bret Stephens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dennisprager.com\/my-response-to-bret-stephens\/\">Here<\/a>. I used to have a fairly high opinion of Bret Stephens. What happened to him?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2017\/09\/should-we-discuss-our-differences-pessimism-versus-optimism.html\">Here<\/a> is my detailed and measured critique of Bret Stephens on the topic of disagreement. It begins like this:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Our national life is becoming like philosophy: a scene of endless disagreement about almost everything. The difference, of course, is that philosophical controversy is typically conducted in a gentlemanly fashion without bloodshed or property damage. Some say that philosophy is a&#0160;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfu.ca\/~swartz\/blood_sport.htm\">blood sport<\/a>, but no blood is ever shed, and though philosophers are ever shooting down one another&#39;s arguments, gunfire at philosophical meetings is so far nonexistent.&#0160; A bit of&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Wittgensteins-Poker-Ten-Minute-Argument-Philosophers\/dp\/0060936649\">poker brandishing<\/a>&#0160;is about as far as it gets.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here. I used to have a fairly high opinion of Bret Stephens. What happened to him? Here is my detailed and measured critique of Bret Stephens on the topic of disagreement. It begins like this: Our national life is becoming like philosophy: a scene of endless disagreement about almost everything. The difference, of course, is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/12\/03\/dennis-prager-responds-to-bret-stephens\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dennis Prager Responds to Bret Stephens&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}