How to see past your own perspective and find truth

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Democracies don’t work if we don’t acknowledge that we all live in the same world, facing the same problems — even if we disagree over how to solve them, writes Michael Patrick Lynch in the New York Times's The Stone.

If we want to live in a tolerant society where we are not only open-minded but willing to learn from others, we need to balance humility and conviction — and admit that we don’t know it all, writes Michael Patrick Lynch in The Chronicle of Higher Education.