By Randall Smith, The Catholic Thing - “No, I don’t think they’re stupid,” she wrote, “but I wish they would just inform themselves.”... I had asked my students to write a reflection on whether they considered those with whom they disagreed either fools or scoundrels. The conviction that those with whom we disagree are not merely mistaken, but actually ignorant and/or malevolent is an increasing problem in our society. So I asked my students to do some self-reflection to see whether they might discern this tendency in themselves.