The question
Whose work do you read even when you disagree with them?Originally asked
Vox, to writers and thinkers, 9 Questions, 2017
Vox used this as one of nine fixed questions in its 2017 series on intellectual habits.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
The Sun/Daily Mail/other various rags. It’s not that I go out of my way to read them, but back in England any fish and chip shop worth their salt delivers your food wrapped in newspaper. Tabloids are cheapest. You can’t help but catch the headlines.
Sean Illing, Vox, “9 questions” series, 6 May 2017 source ↗
I read the New Yorker film critic Anthony Lane. Don’t always agree with his opinions on movies but he’s always deadly funny.
I would include among philosophical writings some liberals. For example, John Stuart Mill, even though I disagree with him profoundly — a very resourceful and intelligent thinker.
The National Review, on occasion. An attempt to understand the brain wiring of as many points of view as I can.
The Wall Street Journal editorial page, most of the time an intelligent and essential voice in American political life.
I question everything. This is also my greatest intellectual habit.
Neil deGrasse Tyson, Fareed Zakaria, Myra Strober, Massimo Pigliucci, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Celeste Ng
Search the directory for somebody in particular.