Only in America's up-is-down, sky-is-green, right-is-wrong discussion about guns would views like those of Vivek Murthy be considered radical.
But in this place, lately, everyone has been at it – and it is fair to say, within the corridors of the institution that Creasy calls "Hogwarts gone wrong", open discussion of women's periods has not always been so common.
Where the Cartesian begins from the concern that unless we begin from premises of which we can be absolutely certain we may never reach the truth, the pragmatist emphasises that, when we do go wrong, further discussion and investigation can hope to identify and eliminate errors.
That is a tired, and in my view wrong-headed, discussion.
The author argues that both are wrong, yet his discussion seems, in baseball-speak, to come from left field.
To the Editor: The argument over merit pay, charter schools and other issues that divide the "pro-union" and "anti-union" sides of the education debate is exactly what is wrong with the discussion of many public issues.
"They gnaw over what they do right and wrong in newsroom discussion and at all manner of media forums and panels.
What could go wrong with a discussion around family generations, music, and the hope that your hidden talents can be cultivated?
Try to anticipate what might go right or wrong in the discussion and have a strategy in place to diffuse potential problems.
"And what's wrong with open discussion?" Ready told the Pueblo Chieftain after the debate that he did not remember posting the link, but that "it would not be the first time I put something out there for discussion".
