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I'm Caleb Brown.

Engaging in civil discourse means presuming goodwill,

understanding the best version of the opposing argument,

and engaging with that argument directly.

Greg Remke runs Economic Thinking.org.

He's been helping young people prepare for debate for decades,

making sure that liberty is always a key element in policy debates.

In doing so, he's learned a few things about having better discussions with people who disagree

with you.

We spoke last month.

Arnold Kling is somebody that I have enormous respect for and he has put together I guess it's

sort of a fantasy intellectual teams and that is people that you would want to have

arguing on your side of stuff and people that you may disagree with but that you respect on the other sides of issues.

That is they don't engage in a lot of bad argumentation or bad faith argumentation. they take your positions seriously and engage with the substance of those

claims. So to the extent that we want to be like that, we want to be one of those people who is well regarded for making a case

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