Yale Law School Prof. Yochai Benkler is here at Berkman for the day as part of his book tour for The Wealth of Networks.
At Fellows’ hour, this discussion is prompted by a back-and-forth about whether Cass Sunstein was right in his famous Republic.com argument (about the Daily Me).
David Weinberger took issue with the idea that we should read or listen to those with whom we disagree. “I do not,” he said, “have an open mind. It would take the Rapture to convince me that Bush was right.”
John Clippinger has a more open-minded idea: that it’s really about structuring different kinds of conversations, not necessarily about eating our spinach and listening to [fill-in-the-blank-radio-shock-jock] with whom one disagrees.
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