🧩 Philosophy Sep 4, 2026 · Maria Popova

How to Handle Provocation: Bertrand Russell’s Remarkable Response to a Fascist

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How to Handle Provocation: Bertrand Russell’s Remarkable Response to a Fascist
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“The emotional universes we inhabit are so distinct, and in deepest ways opposed, that nothing fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from association between us.”

“To approach someone else convincingly you must do so with open arms and head held high, and your arms can’t be open unless your head is high,” the Lebanese-born French writer Amin Maalouf wrote in his timeless, increasingly timely reflection on how to disagree. It is in times as divisive as ours and as sundered by conflic

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