Dr. Jack Goodyear is the dean of the Cook School of leadership and a political science professor at Dallas Baptist University. He provides a rundown of politics since our last discussion in October of 2020. Our discussion largely turns into an examination of how we might move forward with a more balanced political mind. Alongside his commentary on the 2020 election, the capitol insurrection, the inauguration Joe Biden, the impeachment, Texas, Ron Wright, Marjorie Taylor Green, Ted Cruz, Republican infighting, Kamala Harris, David French, Amada Chapman, among others, Dr. Goodyear expresses some hope about the ways we can mend out political divisions.

The John Stuart Mill quote that I butcher, and ruin, is from his essay, “On Liberty.” Here it is, more precisely:

“He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion... Nor is it enough that he should hear the opinions of adversaries from his own teachers, presented as they state them, and accompanied by what they offer as refutations. He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them...he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.”

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