Is Our Ally Actually ‘Something Closer To A Sociopath?’

June 26, 2026 Editor, The News Gazette The philosopher Jurgen Habermas wisely urged that public discourse in an ultra-polarised society is dependent on a shared belief that consensus is possible. That consensus can only prevail, he suggested, if we do not assume that if our conversant does not share our view, he or she “is, in fact, a sociopath.”