Pushkin.

Is there any such thing as a good argument anymore?

One with sharp perspectives, fair and tough questions that leaves you free to come to your

own conclusions?

That's what we'll offer on Hear Me Out, Slates & Podcast.

I'm your host Celeste Headley.

Each week we'll bring you an insightful guest, a surprising point of view, and a good

faith dialogue.

We'll talk, we'll listen, and we'll ask the hard questions on issues that matter.

Every Tuesday on Slates, Hear Me Out was Celeste Headley, starting on March 21st.

Join us.

I opened the wrapping paper hurriedly with nervous hands, excited to get at the gift inside.

Little did I know.

Disaster was about to enter my previously happy childhood.

It wasn't a disaster visited on me, nor my family.

It was a catalogue of disasters for everyone else.

For the gift was a book.

And it was titled in bold letters on a blood-red background, The World's Greatest Mistakes.

The stories were set out like a trashy and exciting tabloid newspaper.

Some were absurd, like the bride who accidentally married the best man.

Some of them were famous tragedies, the Titanic, slipping beneath the ICC.

Funny or sad, all of them fascinated me, and I realized something that has guided me

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