What happens when people with deeply opposing views actually listen to each other? Doug Sprei of the College Debates and Discourse Alliance shares stories from more than

Veteran lobbyist and community mediator Michael Covington shares lessons from a career spent navigating conflict in

What happens when a college dedicated to civil dialogue goes on Tucker Carlson Tonight? In this episode, Phelosha Collaros of St. John's College, famous for its "

After challenging a dominant academic framework about privilege, a graduate student received the worst grade of his life. Curious, he reran the experiment — submitting basically the same paper with the opposite conclusion — and saw it praised. ...

Angel Grant, co-founder of Death Over Dinner and Drugs Over Dinner, opens up about a rare moment when she brok...

After a magical day of food, wine, and instant connection with a new friend, Tina Singleton made one political comment that shattered it all. In th...

Trey Gowdy, former prosecutor and congressman and current author and host ...

Philosopher and interfaith scholar at the University of Denver, Sarah Pessin, has written quite a bit about common...

Fairmont State University President Mike Davis joins When We Disagree to tell a story about being wrong and how it chan...

Graham Bullock, political scientist and director of the Deliberative Citizenship Initiative at D...

What does civility demand when justice is costly and deeply personal? Alexandra Hudson, author of

Jason Caplan, founder of the Bridge Institute, recalls an interfaith discussion that left him frustrated by religious gridlock. He was convince...

Communication scholar and local elected official, Rebecca Townsend, revisits a strange and revealing moment in the 1990s when a small Massachusetts town debated Nigeria’s military polic...

What happens when a classroom discussion about immigration sparks not one argument, but several...plus a disagreement inside the professor herself? In this episode, ...

What happens when “iron sharpens iron” turns into something more damaging? Timothy Shaffer,  the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Chair of Civil Discourse and director of the

Lori Britt, communication scholar and director of the Institute for Constructive Advocacy & Dialogue at

Trained to resolve conflict and build bridges, Janett Cordoves, the senior program director at the Institute for Citizens and...

Elizabeth Matto, director of Rutgers’ Eagleton Institute of Politics, traces a peaceful family disagreement over voting rights ...

Alys Campaigne, the Southern Environmental Law Center's climate initiative leader, reflects on three decades of climate advcocacy, where the same arguments keep resurfacing even as ...

Derick Brown, the chief advancement and strategic partnerships officer of the YMCA of San Francisco, shares the lif...

Leila Brammer, the curriculum director for the Forum for Free Inquiry and Expression at the University of Chicago, used to d...

Dan McCarthy, who edits Modern Age, thinks that what many believe to be “good” democratic citizenship is completely unreal...

During this holiday season, we are re-releasing some of our most popular episodes about conflict in relationships from the archive. A Thanksgiving blowup in 1989 shattered one family and shaped a lifetime of how

Nick Longo shares the origin story behind Providence College's “dialogue walls

Joseph Uscinski pushes back hard on the widespread claim that consp...