New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2021. Literary scholar Gary Saul Morson and economist Morton Schapiro (co-authors of "Cents and Sensibility") examine how rigid adherence to ideological thinking has altered politics, economics, religion, and literature in ways that are mutually reinforcing and antithetical to the open-mindedness and readiness to compromise that animate democracy. In response, Morson and Schapiro show how we might begin to return to meaningful dialogue, drawing on thinkers and writers from across the humanities and social sciences.