The book of the American jurist is devoted to Socratic dialogue - one of the effective and tested tools for building correct reasoning - left to us by ancient philosophy. In the author's interpretation, the Socratic method is contrasted with thoughtless and superficial making of categorical judgments, which is stimulated by modern Internet communication. "If I had to express the antithesis of the Socratic method in one word, then I would use the word Twitter," writes Ward Farnsworth. At the center of his criticism is the inability of a modern person, and around the world, to think critically and independently, questioning those consecrated by tradition, supported by habit or imposed by power assessments and opinions. It is precisely the inability to think in Socratic that is portrayed in the book as the background of "all the rampage of ignorance and hypocrisy that characterizes the current political discourse." Here is the Socratic method in the most primitive form: when someone declares that something is good or bad, right or wrong, immediately question such speeches.