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Put the article together with the readers' comments and you have a year's worth of critical thinking exercises (assessing evidence, reasoning, and assumptions).

"Is structured self-reflection, as some suggest, a healthy tuneup for the heart and head - or can it make hurt feelings worse?"

The comments section is voluminous.

The comments illustrate my use of sports as an example of the point that everyone can think critically if the context is right. (Which shifts discussion from people's deficits as critical thinkers to examining how to create contexts that foster people getting access to their critical thinking intelligence.)

lots of origin stories in these comments

see comments for diversity of responses

"The liberalism of the 1930s and 1940s was shaped by the Great Depression, and the response was, in many respects, communitarian: the strengthening of unions, the provision of jobs and government benefits to the poor and unemployed and the creation of a safety net to provide a modicum of security. The left has, in part, shifted focus, with more stress on the values of self-expression and self-fulfillment, on individual liberation from the constraints of traditional morality, especially sexual morality - what my colleague Ross Douthat calls "The Liberalism of Adult Autonomy" or "the morality of rights." Economic liberalism - despite progress on the minimum wage - has lost salience. Instead of communitarian principles, the contemporary progressive movement - despite its advocacy of local issues like community policing - has produced a counterpart to conservative advocacy of free markets: the advocacy of personal freedom. "