June 11, 2026 | danielb7@mit.edu
The Big Idea: How this campus project is training students to debate hard topics productively
A U.S. News & World Report story on MIT’s Civil Discourse Project features an interview with Project co-leads and philosophers Bradford Skow and Alex Byrne. “Learning how to discuss hard topics with people you disagree with ultimately requires seeing it done and doing it yourself,” Byrne and Skow assert.
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