When minds collide on campus: why it’s hard to see eye-to-eye (but worth the try)

In Australian universities, scholars and students disagree on many topics. Often a little, sometimes a lot. Usually for plausible reasons that each side deems valid enough to persuade an impartial spectator that we are right! and they are wrong! On hotly contested topics, it's harder to disagree well. To defend their view, some shift gear…