Ebook: Arguing for our lives: a user's guide to constructive dialog

With public discourse more skewed than ever by big money's propaganda, our future hinges on our capacity for critical thinking.;In defense of intellectual life? -- Intellectual basics : simple but not simplistic? -- Power basics : political but more than politics? -- Thinking critically about politics? -- Thinking critically about religion? -- Thinking critically about news media? -- Thinking creatively : paradoxes, metaphors, aphorisms? -- Thinking courageously : reframing ourselves and our world.