Partisanship and ideological purity crowd out open-minded debate and experimentation.
We need at least a more open-minded debate – and ever since Andy Warhol's atom bomb paintings, artists have hindered that debate.
It will require an honest, complex, open-minded debate on immigration, income disparity, distrust of government, guns, race, gender, speech, social media, and the environment.
He went to great lengths to avoid commenting about the intentions of his Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear in Washington in October, and the rally itself emphasized such less-than-impassioned virtues as open-minded debate and moderation.
A renewed and open-minded scholarly debate of Shakespeare's identity could lead to important benefits, such as stimulating much wider interest in his works and gaining new insight into British history and culture.
Dr. Babcock said that he and others at Yale remained open-minded in the debate over whether the map is genuine.
Kezia Dugdale, the Scottish Labour leader who favours retaining Trident until there is worldwide nuclear disarmament, told BBC Scotland on Friday she was "very open-minded" about the debate on Sunday and insisted the political risks to Labour were overstated.
Pragmatism maintains that people are constantly devising and updating ideas to navigate the world in which they live; it embraces open-minded experimentation and continuing debate.
But instead of discovering open-minded individuals ready to debate their views, I found myself silenced by my liberal peers.
The personal stakes wrapped in politics can be even worse, making an open-minded search for the truth in policy debates rarer than a Republican camp at Burning Man.
