The Great Dismissal: Requiem to Disinterest

In “The Great Dismissal: Requiem to Disinterest” Henry Sussman identifies our challenge: “It is the respective ways of thinking on the part of conservatives and progressives alike that will need to be deliberated, parsed in detail, before we’ll gain a handle on constructive deliberation ‘from both sides of the aisle.’” His essay frames the collection as he contrasts Kant’s concept of “disinterest, ” the “objective and ethical procedure in the public sphere, ” with Trump’s abuse of the facts, his fraudulent reality grounded in “alienated self-interest and cynical self-aggrandizement.”