Paul Graham just tweeted a link to this Stanford article that explains the left's problem with defaulting to ad hominem, rather than rational debate: http://new

Paul Graham just tweeted a link to this Stanford article that explains the left's problem with defaulting to ad hominem, rather than rational debate: http://news.stanford.edu/2017/02/21/the-threat-from-within/ http://news.stanford.edu/2017/02/21/the-threat-from-within/ Choice quote: "[Universities in particular have] a kind of intellectual blindness that will, in the long run, be more damaging to universities than cuts in federal funding or ill-conceived constraints on immigration. It will be more damaging because we won’t even see it: We will write off those with opposing views as evil or ignorant or stupid, rather than as interlocutors worthy of consideration. We succumb to the all-purpose ad hominem because it is easier and more comforting than rational argument. But when we do, we abandon what is great about this institution we serve."