{"id":5417,"date":"2018-06-22T08:00:33","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T13:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=5417"},"modified":"2018-06-22T08:00:33","modified_gmt":"2018-06-22T13:00:33","slug":"too-much-argument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=5417","title":{"rendered":"Too much argument"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent TED-X talk in Nashville, Robert Talisse (Vanderbilt) argues that to save democracy, we need to do less of it. Here&#8217;s the video:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Putting Politics In Its Place | Dr. Robert Talisse | TEDxNashville\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GVhiFTUbJno?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nThere&#8217;s such a strong connection between argument and democracy that I think what we&#8217;re being asked to less of is not so much democracy, but argument. We should argue less in order to argue better.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent TED-X talk in Nashville, Robert Talisse (Vanderbilt) argues that to save democracy, we need to do less of it. Here&#8217;s the video: There&#8217;s such a strong connection between argument and democracy that I think what we&#8217;re being asked to less of is not so much democracy, but argument. We should argue less &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=5417\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Too much argument<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1765,2134,408],"class_list":["post-5417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-argument","tag-democracy","tag-robert-talisse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5418,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5417\/revisions\/5418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}