Open-mindedness is an essential quality in today's world, where the diversity of thoughts and cultures is more evident than ...

If you get serious about it, being open-minded can be challenging. I’m not talking about being “open-minded” about matters of fact. There’s no need to be open-minded about whether the ...

His best qualities were those that are critical for a well-functioning democracy: open-mindedness and curiosity. It was due to those qualities that, as he phrases it in his excellent memoir ...

People often extol the virtue of open-mindedness, but can there be too much of a good thing? As a college dean, I regularly observe campus controversies about the Israel-Hamas war, race relations ...

“Should a Christian have an open mind?” When a student raised that question in class, I did not know how to answer at first—I felt caught between two competing convictions. On one ...

As a philosopher who works on “culture war” issues, I’m particularly interested in what free-speech disputes teach about the value of open-mindedness. Free-speech advocates often find ...