Dr. Higgins interviews Dr. Christian Dickinson, a former grad school colleague who holds controversial conservative views on gender, economics, and public discourse. He is concerned about nice-sounding terms that either do not conform to his view of reality or that disguise policies he thinks are harmful or impractical. Although he does not approve of ad hominum attacks, he's more worried by words that have the power to make people do bad things, that make something he doesn't approve of seem more palatable, that assert a reality or an identity he thinks is deceptive or unreal, or that attack or dismantle a reality or an identity that he thinks is true or correct.
