Critiquing relieves you of the responsibility of doing integrative thinking..

[T]he seeds of [the Argument Culture] can be found our classrooms, where a teacher will introduce an article or an idea . . . setting up debates wher….

The argument culture urges us to approach the world - and the people in it - in an adversarial frame of mind. It rests on the assumption that opposit….

Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in ….