KIM WOODS——What were the causes of the cuban missile crisis and why was it so short lived
. An important topic is also necessarily controversial and debatable. There is little point in deliberating on issue about which we are already absolutely certain. Therefore, the second step is to recognize that when we feel strongly about a subject, we do so exactly because it is controversial. Isn’t it our sense of the “invalidity” or “irrationality” of a certain debate or claim that infuriates […]