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Whom do you read even though you disagree with them?

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Vox, to writers and thinkers, 9 Questions, 2017

Vox used this as one of nine fixed questions in its 2017 series on intellectual habits.

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Read by field Everyone Science and medicine 6 Arts and letters 15 Politics and public life 3 Business and finance 3
Read by age Any age Before thirty 1 In their thirties 2 In their forties 2 In their fifties 5 In their sixties 4 Seventy and beyond 1
Alain de Botton Writer and philosopher; founder of The School of Life
It’s very gratifying to grow utterly incensed by the Mail Online and come away from it full of fury and absolute outrage at its prejudice and xenophobia — and support for Brexit.
Recorded Sean Illing, Vox, “9 questions” series, 29 April 2017 source ↗
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Novelist and essayist
The Wall Street Journal editorial page, because I imagine it to be what the thoughtful American right reads.
Recorded Sean Illing, Vox, “9 questions” series, 27 May 2017 source ↗

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