Learning to Defuse Anger Through Respectful Dialogue

Learning to Defuse Anger Through Respectful Dialogue
Love the good motives in your friends and loved ones, and don’t give up on them because you differ on complex issues of public policy. Roman Samborskyi/Shutterstock
Mark Hendrickson
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We all know how politically polarized American society has become. There are intensely held, differing opinions about what government should or shouldn’t do. One particularly regrettable aspect of this polarization is that families have been fractured and friendships ruptured. How sad—and perhaps unnecessary.

Mark Hendrickson
Mark Hendrickson
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Mark Hendrickson is an economist who retired from the faculty of Grove City College in Pennsylvania, where he remains fellow for economic and social policy at the Institute for Faith and Freedom. He is the author of several books on topics as varied as American economic history, anonymous characters in the Bible, the wealth inequality issue, and climate change, among others.
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