Archive for Month: June 2021

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Power and Persuasion

In this post, I’m going to address the question of how to persuade someone with power to make a sacrifice for the common good.  It seems to me that this is one of the most intractable problems in history.  For thousands of years, people with power have been more likely to impose their will on others than to shift positions through persuasion.  Let’s start with some provocative voices on power and persuasion.  “When the whole Read More